Section: Software

Keywords : reaction motif search and inference.

Motus

Participants : Ludovic Cottret, Vincent Lacroix, Marie-France Sagot [ Correspondent ] .

Motus is an algorithm for searching and inferring reaction motifs in metabolic networks. A metabolic network is modelled as an undirected graph. Nodes (reactions) are labelled with EC numbers (code of 4 numbers expressing the chemistry of a reaction). A reaction motif is defined as a set of (partial) EC numbers. An occurrence of the motif in the network is a set of nodes (reactions) which is connected and labelled by EC numbers that are similar to the ones of the motif. The algorithm was developed by Vincent Lacroix, and the web interface by Ludovic Cottret and Odile Rogier from the PRABI.