A Network Integration Method for Deciphering the Types of Metabolic Pathway of Chemicals with Heterogeneous Information.

Journal: Combinatorial chemistry & high throughput screening
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Abstract

AIM AND OBJECTIVE: A metabolic pathway is an important type of biological pathway, which is composed of a series of chemical reactions. It provides essential molecules and energies for living organisms. To date, several metabolic pathways have been uncovered. However, their completeness is still on the way. A number of prediction methods have been built to assign chemicals into certain metabolic pathway, which can further be used to predict novel latent chemicals for a given metabolic pathway. However, they did not make use of chemical properties in a system level to construct prediction models.

Authors

  • Zi-Han Guo
    College of Information Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306, China.
  • Lei Chen
    Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University Stony Brook NY USA.
  • Xian Zhao
    College of Information Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306, China.