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FALCON: A robust and efficient method for estimating enzyme complex abundance and metabolic flux from expression data

Published in 2014 by Brandon Barker ORCID, Ns452, Yw595
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Abstract

Release largely associated with http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.4755v1, the first public description of the FALCON algorithm(s). Flux assignment with LAD (least absolute deviation) convex objectives and normalization (FALCON), that employs metabolic network reconstructions along with expression data to estimate fluxes. In order to use such a method, accurate measures of enzyme complex abundance are needed, so we first present a new algorithm that addresses quantification of complex abundance. Our extensions to prior techniques include the capability to work with large models and significantly improved run-time performance even for smaller models, an improved analysis of enzyme complex formation logic, the ability to handle very large enzyme complex rules that may incorporate multiple isoforms, and depending on the model constraints, either maintained or significantly improved correlation with experimentally measured fluxes. FALCON has been implemented in MATLAB and ATS.