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Lucas Gentil Azevedo1, Gabriela Torres Montanaro2, Bruno Ribeiro Pinto2

  • 1Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Institute Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Salvador, Brazil.

Trends in Parasitology
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Keywords:
constraint-based modelinggenome-scale metabolic modelshost–parasite interactionsmetabolic networksprotozoan parasitessystems biology

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