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by gilleain 6 days ago
That would be difficult - a metabolic map is a diagram showing the known reactions. At any point in time, only a subset of these will be active. Like a road map - at midnight, only some roads will have traffic.

I think what you are looking for is more like a model of the metabolome, showing the flow through the network under certain conditions (steady-state, growth, cell stress, etc). Not sure if there is a readily available database of such models, or how easy it would be just to run them and get meaningful results.

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Yeah, I think that's closer to what I'm looking for. I'm actually looking into scaling up chemical simulation, so hopefully simulating it is feasible in the near future!