The Silicon Trypanosome: A Test Case of Iterative Model Extension in Systems Biology
Kapitel i bok, 2014

The African trypanosome, Ttypanosoma brucei, is a unicellular parasite causing African Trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness in humans and nagana in animals). Due to some of its unique properties, it has emerged as a popular model organism in systems biology. A predictive quantitative model of glycolysis in the bloodstream form of the parasite has been constructed and updated several times. The Silicon Trypanosome is a project that brings together modellers and experimentalists to improve and extend this core model with new pathways and additional levels of regulation. These new extensions and analyses use computational methods that explicitly take different levels of uncertainty into account. During this project, numerous tools and techniques have been developed for this purpose, which can now be used for a wide range of different studies in systems biology.

Författare

F. Achcar

University of Glasgow

A. Fadda

Universitat Heidelberg

J. R. Haanstra

University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Eduard Kerkhoven

Chalmers, Kemi- och bioteknik, Livsvetenskaper

D. H. Kim

Wellcome Trust Centre for Molecular Parasitology

A. E. Leroux

Universitat Heidelberg

T. Papamarkou

UCL

F. Rojas

University of Edinburgh

B.M. Bakker

University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen

M. P. Barrett

Wellcome Trust Centre for Molecular Parasitology

C. Clayton

Universitat Heidelberg

M. Girolami

UCL

R. L. Krauth-Siegel

Universitat Heidelberg

K. R. Matthews

University of Edinburgh

R. Breitling

University of Manchester

Advances in Microbial Physiology

0065-2911 (ISSN)

Vol. 64 115-143
978-0-12-800143-1 (ISBN)

Ämneskategorier (SSIF 2011)

Kemi

DOI

10.1016/b978-0-12-800143-1.00003-8

ISBN

978-0-12-800143-1

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Skapat

2017-10-08