What makes a small worm a popular model
Tuesday, June 7, 2016 - 08:30
in Biology & Nature
Researchers from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Kiel University have compiled all metabolic pathways of the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans described so far and have presented a comprehensive metabolic model in the current edition of the journal Cell Systems. The model, called "ElegCyc", covers about 2,000 metabolic processes and is available to research groups all over the world.