MetaGen: a promising tool for modeling metabolic networks from KEGG
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This work was supported by grants from The National Natural Science Foundation of China (60773021, 60603054, 30621063, 30800200), National Basic Research Program of China(2006CB910803, 2006CB910706), Hi-Tech Research and Development Program of China (2006AA02A312), National S&T Major Project(2008ZX10002-016, 2009ZX09301-002) and State Key Laboratory of Proteomics (SKLP-Y200811)

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    For the computational researches on the large-scale metabolisms, MetaGen, a user-friendly utility to batch process and model the organism-specific multi-level metabolisms in KEGG into enzyme and pathway graphs, was developed. An example was given by expanding a little on the bow-tie structure of metabolic networks to show MetaGen is a useful and promising tool. MetaGen takes advantages of KEGG web service to ensure data reliability, uses relational database to accelerate the modeling process and facilitate data management, and applies advanced software modeling techniques as well as a pluggable software architecture for the easy expansion of functionalities in the future. MetaGen saves researchers from the elaboration on preparing metabolic networks for computation, which paves the way to deepen the researches on the large-scale metabolic networks. MetaGen is fully open-sourced and available at http://bnct.sourceforge.net/.

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ZHOU Ting-Ting, YUNG Kin-Fung, CHAN Chun-Chung Keith, WANG Zheng-Hua, ZHU Yun-Ping, HE Fu-Chu.MetaGen: a promising tool for modeling metabolic networks from KEGG[J]. Progress in Biochemistry and Biophysics,2010,37(1):63-68

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  • Received:July 31,2009
  • Revised:September 19,2009
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  • Online: September 30,2009
  • Published: January 20,2010