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BioBulkFoundary: a customized webserver for exploring biosynthetic potentials of bulk chemicals
Dandan Sun1, Shaozhen Ding2, Pengli Cai1
1CAS Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China.
Summary:
Advances in metabolic engineering have boosted the production of bulk chemicals, resulting in tons of production volumes of some bulk chemicals with very low prices. A decrease in the production cost and overproduction of bulk chemicals makes it necessary and desirable to explore the potential to synthesize higher-value products from them. It is also useful and important for society to explore the use of design methods involving synthetic biology to increase the economic value of these bulk chemicals. Therefore, we developed 'BioBulkFoundary', which provides an elaborate analysis of the biosynthetic potential of bulk chemicals based on the state-of-art exploration of pathways to synthesize value-added chemicals, along with associated comprehensive technology and economic database into a user-friendly framework.
Availability And Implementation:
Freely available on the web at http://design.rxnfinder.org/biobulkfoundary/.
Supplementary Information:
Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
