Using Bees Hill Flux Balance Analysis (BHFBA) for in silico microbial strain optimization

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

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Abstract

Microbial strains can be manipulated to improve product yield and improve 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. Escherichia coli 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 publicationIntelligent Information and Database Systems - 5th Asian Conference, ACIIDS 2013, Proceedings
Pages375-384
Number of pages10
EditionPART 1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event5th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, ACIIDS 2013 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Duration: Mar 18 2013Mar 20 2013

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 1
Volume7802 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference5th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, ACIIDS 2013
Country/TerritoryMalaysia
CityKuala Lumpur
Period3/18/133/20/13

Keywords

  • Bees Algorithm
  • Flux Balance Analysis
  • Hill Climbing
  • Microbial Strains
  • Optimization

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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