Simulating Perturbations
FBA is not computationally intensive, taking on the order of seconds to calculate optimal fluxes for biomass production for a simple organism (around 1000 reactions). This means that the effect of deleting reactions from the network and/or changing flux constraints can be sensibly modelled on a single computer.
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