Overview

Teaching: 30 min
Exercises: 30 min

Questions

• How uniquely determined is the flux distribution returned by flux balance analysis?

• What is the optimal oxygen uptake rate at maximum growth?

Objectives

• Learn how to determine flux capacities using flux variability analysis.

• Learn how to generate phenotypic phase planes for different fluxes.

Key Points

• flux_variability_analysis calculates all the minimum and maximum fluxes that all reactions in a model can attain.

• flux_variability_analysis has a keyword argument fraction_of_optimum that allows one to specify a fraction of the model’s objective that needs to be achieved.

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