IN SILICO GENE DELETION OF ESCHERICHIA COLI FOR OPTIMAL ETHANOL PRODUCTION USING A HYBRID ALGORITHM OF PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION AND FLUX BALANCE ANALYSIS
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https://doi.org/10.11113/jt.v78.10040Keywords:
Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Ethanol Production, Flux Balance Analysis, Gene Deletion Strategy, Metabolic Engineering, Particle Swarm OptimizationAbstract
Metabolic engineering of microorganism is widely used to enhance the production of metabolites that is useful in food additives, pharmaceutical, supplements, cosmetics, and polymer materials. One of the approaches for enhancing the biomass production is to utilize gene deletion strategies. Flux Balance Analysis is introduced to delete the gene that eventually leads the overproduction of the biomass and then to increase the biomass production. However, the result of biomass production obtained does not achieve the optimal production. Therefore, we proposed a hybrid algorithm of Particle Swarm Optimization and Flux Balance Analysis to attain an optimal gene deletion that is able to produce a higher biomass production. In this research, Particle Swarm Optimization is introduced as an optimization algorithm to obtain optimal gene deletions while Flux Balance Analysis is used to evaluate the fitness (biomass production or growth rate) of gene deletions. By performing an experiment on Escherichia coli, the results indicate that the proposed hybrid algorithm of Particle Swarm Optimization and Flux Balance Analysis is able to obtain optimal gene deletions that can produce the highest ethanol production. A hybrid algorithm is suggested due to its ability in seeking a higher ethanol production and growth rate than OptReg methods.
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