MPA12

Metabolic Pathway Analysis

Course Timetable (provisional)
Mon, May 21st
Day #1
09:30 - 11:00 General Introduction
Introduction to Metabolic Pathway Analysis
Basic ideas, applicability in medicine and biotechnology, genome-scale models, integrative analysis of Omics data

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00 Basic concepts: Enzyme kinetics, stoichiometry matrix, null-space matrix
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:00 Hands-on / tutorial: Stoichiometry matrix, null-space matrix, enzyme subsets
16:00 - 16:30 Tea Break
16:30 - 18:00 Conservation relations, elementary modes
Tue, May 22nd
Day #2
09:30 - 11:00 Application of elementary modes
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 Hands-on / tutorial: Conservation relations, elementary modes
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:00 Hands-on / tutorial: Application of elementary modes
16:00 - 16:30 Tea Break
16:30 - 18:00 Flux Balance Analysis
Wed, May 23rd
Day #3
09:30 - 11:00 Building metabolic networks from databases and curated genome data
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 Hands-on / tutorial: Flux Balance Analysis
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:00 Hands-on / tutorial: Flux Balance Analysis
16:00 - 16:30 Tea Break
16:30 - 17:00 Final wrap-up session
Course Homepage

Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência,

Apartado 14, 2781-901 Oeiras, Portugal

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Last updated:   April 10th 2012