Visually comparing genome-scale metabolic models

Visualizing the components of each input model with different colors can help compare and visually identify the components that are common between all models or unique to a single model. The large size of genome-scale metabolic models makes it more challenging to visualize such relationships.

Fluxer is a user-friendly web-application that can visualize genome-scale metabolic models using various graphs and layouts. We have made mergem available on Fluxer so that users can merge models while also visualizing their components. The Fluxer interface can be used to interact with the merged model, simulate knockouts in the merged model and even download the final metabolic model (in SBML and graphML formats) and its graphs (in PNG and SVG formats).

The Fluxer tutorial page provides details on how to merge models on Fluxer, how to interpret the results and customize the networks generated.