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A consensus yeast metabolic network reconstruction obtained from a community approach to systems biology

  • Markus J. Herrgård
  • , Neil Swainston
  • , Paul Dobson
  • , Warwick B. Dunn
  • , K. Yalçin Arga
  • , Mikko Arvas
  • , Nils Büthgen
  • , Simon Borger
  • , Roeland Costenoble
  • , Matthias Heinemann
  • , Michael Hucka
  • , Nicolas Le Novère
  • , Peter Li
  • , Wolfram Liebermeister
  • , Monica L. Mo
  • , Ana Paula Oliveira
  • , Dina Petranovic
  • , Stephen Pettifer
  • , Evangelos Simeonidis
  • , Kieran Smallbone
  • Irena Spasić, Dieter Weichart, Roger Brent, David S. Broomhead, Hans V. Westerhoff, Betül Kirdar, Merja Penttilä, Edda Klipp, Bernhard Palsson, Uwe Sauer, Stephen G. Oliver, Pedro Mendes, Jens Nielsen, Douglas B. Kell*
*Corresponding author for this work
    • University of California System
    • Synthetic Genomics, Inc.
    • University of Manchester
    • Boğaziçi University
    • VTT (former employee or external)
    • Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
    • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zürich)
    • California Institute of Technology
    • European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)
    • Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
    • Chalmers University of Technology
    • Molecular Sciences Institute (MSI)
    • Vrije Universiteit Brussel
    • University of Cambridge
    • Virginia Tech

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    Abstract

    Genomic data allow the large-scale manual or semi-automated assembly of metabolic network reconstructions, which provide highly curated organism-specific knowledge bases. Although several genome-scale network reconstructions describe Saccharomyces cerevisiae metabolism, they differ in scope and content, and use different terminologies to describe the same chemical entities. This makes comparisons between them difficult and underscores the desirability of a consolidated metabolic network that collects and formalizes the 'community knowledge' of yeast metabolism. We describe how we have produced a consensus metabolic network reconstruction for S. cerevisiae. In drafting it, we placed special emphasis on referencing molecules to persistent databases or using database-independent forms, such as SMILES or InChI strings, as this permits their chemical structure to be represented unambiguously and in a manner that permits automated reasoning. The reconstruction is readily available via a publicly accessible database and in the Systems Biology Markup Language (http://www.comp-sys-bio.org/yeastnet). It can be maintained as a resource that serves as a common denominator for studying the systems biology of yeast. Similar strategies should benefit communities studying genome-scale metabolic networks of other organisms.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1155-1160
    JournalNature Biotechnology
    Volume26
    Issue number10
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Oct 2008
    MoE publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed

    Funding

    The Manchester groups thank the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) for financial support including for the Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology (http://www.mcisb.org/). The UCSD participants thank the National Institutes of Health for financial support (NIH R01 GM071808). We thank Diane Kelly, Sarah Keating and Norman Paton for many useful discussions. The Jamboree was held under the auspices and with the sponsorship of the Yeast Systems Biology Network (EC Contract: LSHG-CT-2005-018942).

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