precursor 1.2.2

Compute minimal metabolic precursors sets that enable the production of target metabolites.

Installation

You can install precursor by running:

$ pip install --user precursor

On Linux the executable script can then be found in ~/.local/bin

and on MacOS the script is under /Users/YOURUSERNAME/Library/Python/2.7/bin.

Usage

Typical usage is:

$ precursor.py --autoseeds network targets

For more options you can ask for help as follows:

$ precursor.py --help
        usage: precursor.py [-h] [--autoseeds] net inputs

        positional arguments:
          net          metabolic network in SBML format
          inputs       targets in XML format

        optional arguments:
          -h, --help   show this help message and exit
          --autoseeds  compute possible seed metabolites

Samples

An archive with sample files is available here: precursor_data.tar.gz