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The development of high-throughput technologies has allowed the integration of biological data into detailed genome-scale models of multiple organisms. Such models can be exploited by means of computational methods to identify system vulnerabilities such as chokepoint reactions and essential reactions. These vulnerabilities are appealing drug targets that can lead to novel drug developments. However, the current approach to compute these vulnerabilities is only based on topological data and ignores the dynamic information of the model. This can lead to misidentified drug targets.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>This work computes flux constraints that are consistent with a certain growth rate of the modelled organism, and integrates the computed flux constraints into the model to improve the detection of vulnerabilities. By exploiting these flux constraints, we are able to obtain a directionality of the reactions of metabolism consistent with a given growth rate of the model, and consequently, a more realistic detection of vulnerabilities can be performed. Several sets of reactions that are system vulnerabilities are defined and the relationships among them are studied. The approach for the detection of these vulnerabilities has been implemented in the Python tool CONTRABASS. Such tool, for which an online web server has also been implemented, computes flux constraints and generates a report with the detected vulnerabilities.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Availability and implementation<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>CONTRABASS is available as an open source Python package at https:\/\/github.com\/openCONTRABASS\/CONTRABASS under GPL-3.0 License. An online web server is available at http:\/\/contrabass.unizar.es.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Supplementary information<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>A glossary of terms are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btad053","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,23]],"date-time":"2023-01-23T21:02:54Z","timestamp":1674507774000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["CONTRABASS: exploiting flux constraints in genome-scale models for the detection of vulnerabilities"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"39","author":[{"given":"Alexandru","family":"Oarga","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, University of Zaragoza , Zaragoza 50018, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Bridget P","family":"Bannerman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Lucy Cavendish College, Biological Sciences, University of Cambridge , Cambridge CB3 0BU, UK"},{"name":"Science Resources Foundation, Health Unit , London EC1V 2NX, UK"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7093-228X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jorge","family":"J\u00falvez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, University of Zaragoza , Zaragoza 50018, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023020814111814500_btad053-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"e1005895","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pcbi.1005895","article-title":"Functional interrogation of Plasmodium genus metabolism identifies species-and stage-specific differences in nutrient essentiality and drug targeting","volume":"14","author":"Abdel-Haleem","year":"2018","journal-title":"PLoS Comput. 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