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Recently, a novel pathway concept termed carbon flux paths (CFPs) was introduced and benchmarked against existing approaches, showing a clear advantage for finding linear pathways from a given source to target metabolite.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>CFPs are simple paths in a metabolite\u2013metabolite graph that satisfy typical constraints in stoichiometric models: mass balancing and thermodynamics (irreversibility). In addition, CFPs guarantee carbon exchange in each of their intermediate steps, but not between the source and the target metabolites and consequently false positive solutions may arise. These pathways often lack biological interest, particularly when studying biosynthetic or degradation routes of a metabolite. To overcome this issue, we amend the formulation in CFP, so as to account for atomic fate information. This approach is termed atomic CFP (aCFP).<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: By means of a side-by-side comparison in a medium scale metabolic network in Escherichia Coli, we show that aCFP provides more biologically relevant pathways than CFP, because canonical pathways are more easily recovered, which reflects the benefits of removing false positives. In addition, we demonstrate that aCFP can be successfully applied to genome-scale metabolic networks. As the quality of genome-scale atomic reconstruction is improved, methods such as the one presented here will undoubtedly be of value to interpret \u2018omics\u2019 data.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0fplanes@ceit.es or John.Beasley@brunel.ac.uk<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary Information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btt653","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,11,23]],"date-time":"2013-11-23T03:29:55Z","timestamp":1385177395000},"page":"975-980","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":18,"title":["Refining carbon flux paths using atomic trace data"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"30","author":[{"given":"Jon","family":"Pey","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 CEIT and TECNUN, University of Navarra, Manuel de Lardizabal 15, 20018 San Sebastian, Spain and 2Mathematical Sciences, Brunel University, Kingston Lane, UB8 3PH, Uxbridge, UK"}]},{"given":"Francisco J.","family":"Planes","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 CEIT and TECNUN, University of Navarra, Manuel de Lardizabal 15, 20018 San Sebastian, Spain and 2Mathematical Sciences, Brunel University, Kingston Lane, UB8 3PH, Uxbridge, UK"}]},{"given":"John E.","family":"Beasley","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 CEIT and TECNUN, University of Navarra, Manuel de Lardizabal 15, 20018 San Sebastian, Spain and 2Mathematical Sciences, Brunel University, Kingston Lane, UB8 3PH, Uxbridge, UK"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2013,11,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023012710455457200_btt653-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"588","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1574-6976.2010.00216.x","article-title":"Common patterns\u2013unique features: nitrogen metabolism and regulation in Gram-positive bacteria","volume":"34","author":"Amon","year":"2010","journal-title":"FEMS Microbiol. 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