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Exploring the expressiveness of abstract metabolic networks

Irene García
Mercè Llabrés

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Metabolism is characterised by chemical reactions linked to each other, creating a complex network structure. The whole metabolic network is divided into pathways of chemical reactions, such that every pathway is a metabolic function. A simplified representation of metabolism, which we call an abstract metabolic network , is a graph in which metabolic pathways are nodes and there is an edge between two nodes if their corresponding pathways share one or more compounds. The abstract metabolic network of a given organism results in a small network that requires low computational power to be analysed and makes it a suitable model to perform a large-scale comparison of organisms’ metabolism. To explore the potentials and limits of such a basic representation, we considered a comprehensive set of KEGG organisms, represented through their abstract metabolic network. We performed pairwise comparisons using graph kernel methods and analyse the results through exploratory data analysis and machine learning techniques. The results show that abstract metabolic networks discriminate macro evolutionary events, indicating that they are expressive enough to capture key steps in metabolism evolution.
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Irene García, Bessem Chouaia, Mercè Llabrés, Marta Simeoni. Exploring the expressiveness of abstract metabolic networks. PLoS ONE, 2023, 18 (2), pp.e0281047. ⟨10.1371/journal.pone.0281047⟩. ⟨hal-04470044⟩
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