Metabolite Integration Pipeline for the Improvement of Human Metabolic Models

Genome-scale metabolic models (GSMMs) of human cells are predictive tools with great potential for revealing important aspects of cell physiology, disease as well as for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases caused by the deregulation of metabolism. In the past decade, there have been notable efforts to reconstruct models of human metabolism, with five generic GSMMs currently available. Maintaining references to biological databases is important to allow seamless integration of models themselves and with experimental data. Still, the incorporation of external identifiers is often missed in the model reconstruction process.