The decreasing costs of next generation sequencing technologies and the increasing speeds at which they work have lead to an abundance of 'omic datasets. The need for tools and methods to analyze, annotate, and model these datasets to better understand biological systems is growing. Here we present a novel software pipeline to reconstruct the metabolic model of an organism in silico starting from its genome sequence and a novel compilation of biological databases to better serve the generation of metabolic models. We validate these methods using five Gardnerella vaginalis strains and compare the gene annotation results to NCBI and the FBA results to Model SEED models. We found that our gene annotations were larger and highly similar in terms of function and gene types to the gene annotations downloaded from NCBI. Further, we found that our FBA models required a minimal addition of transport reactions, sources, and escapes indicating that our draft pathway models were very complete. We also found that on average our solutions contained more reactions than the models obtained from Model SEED due to a large amount of baseline reactions and gene products found in ASGARD.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:vcu.edu/oai:scholarscompass.vcu.edu:etd-5679 |
| Date | 01 January 2016 |
| Creators | Norris, Shaun W |
| Publisher | VCU Scholars Compass |
| Source Sets | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Theses and Dissertations |
| Rights | ©2016 Shaun William Norris |
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