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Metingear: a development environment for annotating genome-scale metabolic models

, , and . Bioinformatics, 29 (17): 2213--2215 (Sep 1, 2013)
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btt342

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Summary: Genome-scale metabolic models often lack annotations that would allow them to be used for further analysis. Previous efforts have focused on associating metabolites in the model with a cross reference, but this can be problematic if the reference is not freely available, multiple resources are used or the metabolite is added from a literature review. Associating each metabolite with chemical structure provides unambiguous identification of the components and a more detailed view of the metabolism. We have developed an open-source desktop application that simplifies the process of adding database cross references and chemical structures to genome-scale metabolic models. Annotated models can be exported to the Systems Biology Markup Language open interchange format.Availability: Source code, binaries, documentation and tutorials are freely available at http://johnmay.github.com/metingear. The application is implemented in Java with bundles available for MS Windows and Macintosh OS X.Contact: johnmay@ebi.ac.ukSupplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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