Integration of Metabolic Knowledge for Genome‐Scale Metabolic Reconstruction

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INTRODUCTIONGenome-scale metabolic reconstruction is the ultimate goal of system biologists for finding out the genotype-phenotype relationship. For achieving this purpose, we need enough knowledge about the metabolic pathways and genome annotation. During the present study, we aim to describe the foundational concepts, central to omics data, model formulation, history, method, and applications of metabolic network reconstruction as well as some related sources. In Section 45.2, we describe omics data and high-throughput technologies for gaining these data. In section 45.3, we present different ways for metabolic network modeling. In section 45.4, we summarize the history of genome-scale modeling as one of the most important methods for metabolic network modeling. In sections 45.5 and 45.6, we elucidate how genome-scale metabolic models could be generated and what their applications are. Finally, in section 45.7, we review biochemical pathways and genome annotation databases. OMICs ERAInnovative omics technologies such as genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics facilitate a strategy toward the simultaneous analysis of the large number of genes, transcripts, proteins, and metabolites. Therefore, a huge volume of data has generated about the make-up of cells and their behavior at various cellular levels and different environmental conditions, which enable us to reconstruct genome-scale biomolecular networks (e.g., transcriptional regulatory networks, interactomic networks, and metabolic networks)Knowledge Discovery Handbook: Preprocessing, Mining, and Postprocessing of Biological Data, First Edition. Edited by Mourad Elloumi and Albert Y. Zomaya.