Memote: A Community Driven Effort Towards a Standardized Genome-Scale Metabolic Model Test Suite
Conference on Constraint-Based Reconstruction and Analysis (COBRA)
2018
5th Conference on Constraint-Based Reconstruction and Analysis (COBRA 2018)
General Submissions
Methods & Software 2
Tuesday, October 16, 2018 - 6:05pm to 6:35pm
Here, we present memote (https://github.com/opencobra/memote) an open-source software containing a community-maintained, standardized set of metabolic model tests. The tests cover a range of aspects from annotations to conceptual integrity and can be extended to include experimental datasets for automatic model validation. In addition to testing a model once, memote can be configured to do so automatically, i.e., while building a GEM. A comprehensive report displays the modelâs performance parameters, which supports informed model development and facilitates error detection.
Memote provides a measure for model quality that is consistent across reconstruction platforms and analysis software and simplifies collaboration within the community by establishing workflows for publicly hosted and version controlled models.