Identifying gene knockout strategy using bees hill flux balance analysis (BHFBA) for improving the production of ethanol in bacillus subtilis

Yee Wen Choon, Mohd Saberi Mohamad, Safaai Deris, Rosli M. Illias, Lian En Chai, Chuii Khim Chong

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Abstract

Bacillus subtilis strains can be manipulated to improve product yield and growth characteristics. Optimization algorithms are developed to identify the effects of gene knockout on the results. However, this process is often faced the problem of being trapped in local minima and slow convergence due to repetitive iterations of algorithm. In this paper, we proposed Bees Hill Flux Balance Analysis (BHFBA) which is a hybrid of Bees Algorithm, Hill Climbing Algorithm and Flux Balance Analysis to solve the problems and improve the performance in predicting optimal sets of gene deletion for maximizing the growth rate and production yield of desired metabolite. Bacillus subtilis is the model organism in this paper. The list of knockout genes, growth rate and production yield after the deletion are the results from the experiments. BHFBA performed better in term of computational time, stability and production yield.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Biomedical Infrastructure 2013
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of International Symposium on Biomedical Data Infrastructure (BDI 2013)
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages117-126
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783642371363
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameStudies in Computational Intelligence
Volume477
ISSN (Print)1860-949X

Keywords

  • Bacillus subtilis
  • Bees algorithm
  • Flux balance analysis
  • Hill climbing
  • Optimization

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence

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