OptStrain

General concept

In addition to designing growth-coupled production strains in silico, foreign metabolic pathways may be added to expand the range of producible metabolites. Using a curated universal database containing all known enzyme-catalyzed reactions, the minimal number of reactions needed to synthesize a compound of interest is added to the metabolic network of the production strain. Next, bi-level LP or MILP can be used to identify a set of reaction deletions that optimizes the product of interest, subject to optimal in silico growth.

Items to consider when implementing

Software packages with this method

Applications of interest

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Relevant references

Pharkya, et al.

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