@inproceedings{8316e73b28f74ce7a4d763f7b6ac43e1,
title = "Using Bees Hill Flux Balance Analysis (BHFBA) for in silico microbial strain optimization",
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.",
keywords = "Bees Algorithm, Flux Balance Analysis, Hill Climbing, Microbial Strains, Optimization",
author = "Choon, \{Yee Wen\} and \{Bin Mohamad\}, \{Mohd Saberi\} and Safaai Deris and Illias, \{Rosli Md\} and Chai, \{Lian En\} and Chong, \{Chuii Khim\}",
year = "2013",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-36546-1\_39",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783642365454",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
number = "PART 1",
pages = "375--384",
booktitle = "Intelligent Information and Database Systems - 5th Asian Conference, ACIIDS 2013, Proceedings",
edition = "PART 1",
note = "5th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, ACIIDS 2013 ; Conference date: 18-03-2013 Through 20-03-2013",
}