Reconstructing organisms in silico: genome-scale models and their emerging applications

X Fang, CJ Lloyd, BO Palsson - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2020 - nature.com
Escherichia coli is considered to be the best-known microorganism given the large number
of published studies detailing its genes, its genome and the biochemical functions of its …

Current status and applications of genome-scale metabolic models

C Gu, GB Kim, WJ Kim, HU Kim, SY Lee - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Genome-scale metabolic models (GEMs) computationally describe gene-protein-reaction
associations for entire metabolic genes in an organism, and can be simulated to predict …

Genome-scale metabolic reconstruction of 7,302 human microorganisms for personalized medicine

A Heinken, J Hertel, G Acharya, DA Ravcheev… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The human microbiome influences the efficacy and safety of a wide variety of commonly
prescribed drugs. Designing precision medicine approaches that incorporate microbial …

Combining mechanistic and machine learning models for predictive engineering and optimization of tryptophan metabolism

J Zhang, SD Petersen, T Radivojevic, A Ramirez… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Through advanced mechanistic modeling and the generation of large high-quality datasets,
machine learning is becoming an integral part of understanding and engineering living …

Designing microbial cell factories for the production of chemicals

JS Cho, GB Kim, H Eun, CW Moon, SY Lee - Jacs Au, 2022 - ACS Publications
The sustainable production of chemicals from renewable, nonedible biomass has emerged
as an essential alternative to address pressing environmental issues arising from our heavy …

Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for natural product biosynthesis

D Yang, SY Park, YS Park, H Eun, SY Lee - Trends in Biotechnology, 2020 - cell.com
Natural products are widely employed in our daily lives as food additives, pharmaceuticals,
nutraceuticals, and cosmetic ingredients, among others. However, their supply has often …

A consensus S. cerevisiae metabolic model Yeast8 and its ecosystem for comprehensively probing cellular metabolism

H Lu, F Li, BJ Sánchez, Z Zhu, G Li, I Domenzain… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Genome-scale metabolic models (GEMs) represent extensive knowledgebases that provide
a platform for model simulations and integrative analysis of omics data. This study …

Fast automated reconstruction of genome-scale metabolic models for microbial species and communities

D Machado, S Andrejev, M Tramontano… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Genome-scale metabolic models are instrumental in uncovering operating principles of
cellular metabolism, for model-guided re-engineering, and unraveling cross-feeding in …

A white-box machine learning approach for revealing antibiotic mechanisms of action

JH Yang, SN Wright, M Hamblin, D McCloskey… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Current machine learning techniques enable robust association of biological signals with
measured phenotypes, but these approaches are incapable of identifying causal …

Deep learning driven biosynthetic pathways navigation for natural products with BioNavi-NP

S Zheng, T Zeng, C Li, B Chen, CW Coley… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The complete biosynthetic pathways are unknown for most natural products (NPs), it is thus
valuable to make computer-aided bio-retrosynthesis predictions. Here, a navigable and user …