Metabolic Pathway Analysis [Elektronische Ressource] : from small to genome-scale networks / Luis F. D. P. de Figueiredo. Gutachter: Stefan Schuster ; Peter Dittrich ; Marie-France Sagot

Metabolic Pathway Analysis:from small to genome-scale networksDissertationzur Erlangung des akademischen Gradesdoctor rerum naturalium (Dr. rer. nat.)vorgelegt dem Rat der Biologisch-Pharmazeutischen Fakultatder Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jenavon Dipl.-Ing. Lu s F. D. P. de Figueiredogeboren am 12. Marz 1982 in Lissabon, PortugalExaminers / Gutachter:1. Prof. Dr. Stefan Schuster (Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena, Jena)2. PD Dr. Peter Dittrich (Fat Jena, Jena)3. Prof. Dr. Marie-France Sagot (INRIA Grenoble Rh^ one-Alpes, Universite ClaudeBernard, Lyon)Date of the public defence / Tag der o entlichen Verteidigung: 22.02.2011The following work was developed in the context of the PhD Program in Computa-tional Biology organized by the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ci^encia, Oeiras, Portugal.Financial support was given by the following Portuguese institutions: Funda c~aoCalouste Gulbenkian, Funda c~ao para a Ci^encia e Tecnologia, Academia Siemensand Funda c~ao PT.The author of this work received a PhD fellowship (SFRH/BD/32961/2006) fromthe Funda c~ao para a Ci^encia e Tecnologia, co-financed by the POPH/FSE.The research project associated with this work was carried at the Department ofBioinformatics from the School of Biology and Pharmacy of the Friedrich-Schiller-Universit at Jena under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Stefan Schuster. Moreover,the BIOINF group from Prof. Dr. Stefan Schuster is a partner of the Jena Centerfor Bioinformatics.