Robustness of metabolic networks a review of existing definitions
- Describing the determinants of robustness of biological systems has become one of the central questions in systems biology. Despite the increasing research efforts, it has proven difficult to arrive at a unifying definition for this important concept. We argue that this is due to the multifaceted nature of the concept of robustness and the possibility to formally capture it at different levels of systemic formalisms (e.g, topology and dynamic behavior). Here we provide a comprehensive review of the existing definitions of robustness pertaining to metabolic networks. As kinetic approaches have been excellently reviewed elsewhere, we focus on definitions of robustness proposed within graph-theoretic and constraint-based formalisms.
Author details: | Abdelhalim Larhlimi, Sylvain Blachon, Joachim SelbigGND, Zoran NikoloskiORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2011.06.002 |
ISSN: | 0303-2647 |
Title of parent work (English): | Biosystems : journal of biological and information processing sciences |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Place of publishing: | Oxford |
Publication type: | Review |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 2011 |
Publication year: | 2011 |
Release date: | 2017/03/26 |
Tag: | Constraint-based approaches; Graph theory; Metabolic networks; Robustness |
Volume: | 106 |
Issue: | 1 |
Number of pages: | 8 |
First page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 8 |
Funding institution: | GABI-ENERGY; Federal Ministry of Education and Research [0315045, 0313924]; GoFORSYS |
Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Biochemie und Biologie |
Peer review: | Referiert |