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Oxford University Press (OUP), Bioinformatics, 17(29), p. 2213-2215

DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btt342

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Metingear: a development environment for annotating genome-scale metabolic models

Journal article published in 2013 by John W. May, A. Gordon James, Christoph Steinbeck
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
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Abstract

Summary: Genome-scale metabolic models often lack annotations that would allow them to be used for further analysis. Previous efforts have focused on associating metabolites in the model with a cross reference, but this can be problematic if the reference is not freely available, multiple resources are used or the metabolite is added from a literature review. Associating each metabolite with chemical structure provides unambiguous identification of the components and a more detailed view of the metabolism. We have developed an open-source desktop application that simplifies the process of adding database cross references and chemical structures to genome-scale metabolic models. Annotated models can be exported to the Systems Biology Markup Language open interchange format.