Section: New Software and Platforms

conquests

Crossroads in Metabolic Network from Stoechiometric and Topologic Studies

Keywords: Bioinformatics - ASP - Answer Set Programming - Constraint-based programming

Functional Description: This Python package in systems biology allows the identification of essential metabolites with respect to the production of targeted elements in a metabolic network, by comparing flux and graph-based analysis. Conquests's inputs are a sbml file corresponding to a metabolic network and the biomass reaction name. The outputs are three sets of essential metabolites. They are computed according to three complementary criteria: graph-based accessibility of targeted metabolites, the presence of flux in the biomass reaction and the maximisation of flux in the biomass reaction.

News Of The Year: Conquest was released in 2017.

• Contact: Julie Laniau