New Approach for Phylogenetic Tree Recovery Based on Genome-Scale Metabolic Networks

作者:Gamermann Daniel*; Montagud Arnaud; Alberto Conejero J; Urchueguia Javier F; Fernandez de Cordoba Pedro
来源:Journal of Computational Biology, 2014, 21(7): 508-519.
DOI:10.1089/cmb.2013.0150

摘要

A wide range of applications and research has been done with genome-scale metabolic models. In this work, we describe an innovative methodology for comparing metabolic networks constructed from genome-scale metabolic models and how to apply this comparison in order to infer evolutionary distances between different organisms. Our methodology allows a quantification of the metabolic differences between different species from a broad range of families and even kingdoms. This quantification is then applied in order to reconstruct phylogenetic trees for sets of various organisms.

  • 出版日期2014-7