Viable flux distribution in metabolic networks

Ginestra Bianconi; Riccardo Zecchina

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Viable flux distribution in metabolic networks

Ginestra Bianconi·Riccardo Zecchina

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The metabolic networks are very well characterized for a large set of organisms, a unique case in within the large-scale biological networks. For this reason they provide a a very interesting framework for the construction of analytically tractable statistical mechanics models. In this paper we introduce a solvable model for the distribution of fluxes in the metabolic network. We show that the effect of the topology on the distribution of fluxes is to allow for large fluctuations of their values, a fact that should have implications on the robustness of the system.

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Ginestra Bianconi, Riccardo Zecchina. 2007-05-21. Viable flux distribution in metabolic networks. https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.2816

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