md_harmonize: A Python Package for Atom-Level Harmonization of Public Metabolic Databases
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Huan Jin1, Hunter N B Moseley1,2,3,4,5
1Department of Toxicology and Cancer Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA.
Abstract:
A major challenge to integrating public metabolic resources is the use of different nomenclatures by individual databases. This paper presents md_harmonize, an open-source Python package for harmonizing compounds and metabolic reactions across various metabolic databases. The md_harmonize package utilizes a neighborhood-specific graph coloring method for generating a unique identifier for each compound via atom identifiers based on a compound's chemical structure. The resulting harmonized compounds and reactions can be used for various downstream analyses, including the construction of atom-resolved metabolic networks and models for metabolic flux analysis. Parts of the md_harmonize package have been optimized using a variety of computational techniques to allow certain NP-complete problems handled by the software to be tractable for these specific use-cases. The software is available on GitHub and through the Python Package Index, with end-user documentation hosted on GitHub Pages.
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