Bioinformatics tools for the visualization and structural analysis of metabolic networks [Elektronische Ressource] / von Márcio Rosa da Silva

Bioinformatics tools for the visualization and structural analysis of metabolic networks Von der Fakultät für Lebenswissenschaften der Technischen Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig zur Erlangung des Grades eines Doktors der Naturwissenschaften (Dr. rer. nat.) genehmigte D i s s e r t a t i o n von Márcio Rosa da Silva aus Porto Alegre, Brasilien 1. Referent: Prof. Dr. Wolf-Dieter Deckwer 2. Referent: Prof. Dr. An-Ping Zeng eingereicht am: 3.5.2006 mündliche Prüfung (Disputation) am: 6.7.2006 2006 (Druckjahr) Acknowledgments I would like to express my gratitude to my supervisor Prof. Dr. An-Ping Zeng for his guidance and constructive criticism during all this work. I am grateful to Prof. Dr. Wolf-Dieter Deckwer for being my mentor and also acting as referee for this work. I also would like to thank Prof. Dr. Siegmund Lang for acting as the third Prüfer for this work and also for his advice during the process for the submission of this work. Thanks to all my colleagues in the Systems Biology group in the GBF: to Ahmed Haddad, Bharani Kumar, Feng He, Ping Zheng, and in especial to Dr. Hongwu Ma and Dr. Jibin Sun for the fruitful discussions for improvement of this work. Thanks to Angela Walter for all her help, especially with “German burocracy”.