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Automatic Revision of Metabolic Networks through Logical Analysis of Experimental Data

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Inductive Logic Programming (ILP 2009)

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This paper presents a nonmonotonic ILP approach for the automatic revision of metabolic networks through the logical analysis of experimental data. The method extends previous work in two respects: by suggesting revisions that involve both the addition and removal of information; and by suggesting revisions that involve combinations of gene functions, enzyme inhibitions, and metabolic reactions. Our proposal is based on a new declarative model of metabolism expressed in a nonmonotonic logic programming formalism. With respect to this model, a mixture of abductive and inductive inference is used to compute a set of minimal revisions needed to make a given network consistent with some observed data. In this way, we describe how a reasoning system called XHAIL was able to correctly revise a state-of-the-art metabolic pathway in the light of real-world experimental data acquired by an autonomous laboratory platform called the Robot Scientist.

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Ray, O., Whelan, K., King, R. (2010). Automatic Revision of Metabolic Networks through Logical Analysis of Experimental Data . In: De Raedt, L. (eds) Inductive Logic Programming. ILP 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5989. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13840-9_18

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