Understanding metabolic behaviour in whole-cell model output
Landon, S.; Chalkley, O.; Breese, G.; Grierson, C.; Marucci, L.
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Whole-cell modelling is a newly expanding field that has many applications in lab experiment design and predictive drug testing. Although whole-cell model output contains a wealth of information, it is complex and high dimensional, thus hard to interpret. Here, we present an analysis pipeline that combines machine learning, dimensionality reduction and network analysis to interpret and visualise metabolic reaction fluxes from a set of single gene knockouts simulated in the Mycoplasma genitalium whole-cell model. We found that the reaction behaviours show trends that correlate with phenotypic classes of the simulation output, highlighting particular cellular subsystems that malfunction after gene knockouts. From a graphical representation of the metabolic network, we saw that there is a set of reactions that can be used as markers of a phenotypic class, showing their importance within the network. Our analysis pipeline can support the understanding of the complexity of in silico cells without detailed knowledge of the constituent parts, which can help to understand the effects of gene knockouts, and, as whole-cell models become more widely built and used, aid genome design.
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