eNews 2008
| Paul Brooks Wins
Monday's Interactive Session | |
 Paul
Brooks, from Virginia Commonwealth University, won
today's interactive session and a $750 prize with
his display entitled, "MetModel GUI: Software
for Building Optimization-Based Models of Cellular
Metabolism." MetModel GUI is software for
building and analyzing linear programming-based
models of cellular metabolism. The models can be
used to generate testable hypotheses about the
effects of genetic engineering on an organism.
Examples of applications include determining how a
cellulose-consuming bacterium can be engineered to
produce more ethanol, or determining which genetic
modifications are lethal for a disease-causing
organism.
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