Flux balance analysis is a mathematical approach for analyzing the flow of metabolites through a metabolic network.This approach can be used for insilico modelling so that we can get a first hand idea before we can proceed to our actual experiment .
Flux Balance Analysis computes theoretical performance limits, for example we want to calculate the rate of consumption and production of byproducts by a cell line we can calculate theoretically optimal behavior of the system with respect to the objective and constraints we intend to apply on our system.
Most common example is bacterial growth ,growing bacterial cells growing in culture evolve under selection pressure for biomass production, the theoretical limit on biomass production may indeed be approached
Flux Balance Analysis computes theoretical performance limits, for example we want to calculate the rate of consumption and production of byproducts by a cell line we can calculate theoretically optimal behavior of the system with respect to the objective and constraints we intend to apply on our system.
Most common example is bacterial growth ,growing bacterial cells growing in culture evolve under selection pressure for biomass production, the theoretical limit on biomass production may indeed be approached
How closely other systems can be expected to approach optimal condition depends on the constraints should be realistic. In humans, you would for example expect that the physiology of the person would greatly affect the growth rate of any cancer cells.
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