WholeCellKB is a collection of free, open-source model organism databases designed specifically to enable comprehensive, dynamic simulations of entire cells and organisms. WholeCellKB provides comprehensive, quantitative descriptions of individual species including:
- Cellular chemical composition,
- Growth medium composition,
- Gene locations, lengths, and directions,
- Transcription unit organization and transcriptional regulation,
- Macromolecule composition,
- Reaction stoichiometry, kinetics, and catalysis, and
- Extensive links and cross-links to all references used to construct each model organism database.
See the tutorial and the about page for more information about WholeCellKB how to use WholeCellKB as well as how it was design, implemented, and curated.
See the Developer's Guide.
See the Developer's Guide.
See the Developer's Guide.
Please view the tutorial, about page, or contact us at [email protected].
Please use the following references to cite WholeCellKB:
- Karr JR, Sanghvi JC, Macklin DN, Arora A, Covert MW. WholeCellKB: Model Organism Databases for Comprehensive Whole-Cell Models. Nucleic Acids Research 41, D787-D792 (2013). PubMed
- Karr JR, Sanghvi JC, Macklin DN, Gutschow MV, Jacobs JM, Bolival B, Assad-Garcia N, Glass JI, Covert MW. A Whole-Cell Computational Model Predicts Phenotype from Genotype. Cell 150 2, 389-401 (2012). PubMed
WholeCellKB was developed by a team of three researchers at Stanford University:
- Jonathan Karr, Graduate Student in Biophysics
- Jayodita Sanghvi, Graduate Student in Bioengineering
- Derek Macklin, Graduate Student in Bioengineering
- Abhishek Arora, Graduate Student in Electrical Engineering
- Markus Covert, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
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