COVRECON

COVRECON reconstructs genome- and metabolome-scale Jacobian structures and infers biochemical regulatory interactions from large-scale OMICS and metabolomics data using regression loss–based inverse Jacobian algorithms.


Key Features:

  • Automated Network Reconstruction: Generates organism-specific enzyme and reaction datasets and reconstructs Jacobian structures using databases such as Bigg and KEGG tailored to targeted metabolomics datasets.
  • Inverse Differential Jacobian Evaluation: Implements a regression loss–based inverse Jacobian algorithm that rates biochemical interactions by relevance from large-scale metabolomics data to enhance numerical stability and robustness.
  • Improved Stability and Efficiency: Applies an algorithmic framework that reduces instability in regression problems and improves computational efficiency for large-scale metabolic networks.
  • Data-Driven Superpathway Model Reconstruction: Automatically reconstructs data-driven superpathway models to explore generalized network structures beyond traditional pathways.

Scientific Applications:

  • Inferring Biochemical Regulations: Identifies regulatory checkpoints and biochemical regulations within metabolic networks by analyzing large-scale OMICS and metabolomics data.
  • Stochastic Analysis and Real-World Application: Enables in silico stochastic analysis on various-sized metabolic networks from the BioModels database and can be applied to real-world metabolomics examples.

Methodology:

Sim-Network: automates creation of organism-specific enzyme and reaction datasets and reconstructs Jacobian structure using databases such as Bigg and KEGG for targeted metabolomics analysis. Inverse Differential Jacobian Evaluation: applies a regression loss–based inverse Jacobian algorithm to rate biochemical interactions by relevance, improving numerical stability for large-scale network modeling.

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Details

Cost:
Free of charge
Tool Type:
workflow
Programming Languages:
MATLAB
Added:
1/30/2024
Last Updated:
11/24/2024

Operations

Publications

Li J, Waldherr S, Weckwerth W. COVRECON: automated integration of genome- and metabolome-scale network reconstruction and data-driven inverse modeling of metabolic interaction networks. Bioinformatics. 2023;39(7). doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btad397. PMID:37402625. PMCID:PMC10356784.

PMID: 37402625
Funding: - China Scholarship Council: 201806010428