Section outline

  • Tuesday 30 August 2016

    09:00 - 10:30

    Introduction to online metabolic pathway databases
    Nathan E. Lewis (Systems biochemistry and cell engineering lab, University of California, San Diego) & Andreas Dräger (Systems Biology group, University of Tübingen)
    10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
    11:00 - 12:30

    Exercises / hands-on
    Useful software for working with metabolic networks
     * Escher for visualization and reconstruction
     * KEGGtranslator
     practical exercise: reconstruction using online resource lookup
    12:30 – 13:45 Lunch
    13:45 – 15:45 Introduction to constraint-based modeling and Tutorial on COBRApy
    15:45 – 16:15 Coffee break
    16:15 - 17:15 Reconstruction and simulation of networks
    Practical exercise in metabolic engineering using COBRApy/COBRA Toolbox and visualizaion of results and data with Escher