Predictive Modelling of the Rice (Oryza sativa) metabolic network

This project began with a research collaboration agreement between Oxford Brookes University and the University of Calcutta. As a result, our group was contacted by Dr Sudip Kundu of the Department of Biophysics, Molecular Biology & Bioinformatics and we began a project to use the techniques we had developed for the construction of a genome-scale metabolic model of Arabidopsis to build a similar model for rice.

After an initial visit of Dr Kundu to Oxford funded by Oxford Brookes University, we were successful in obtaining a grant from the BBSRC as part of their India Partnering Awards scheme.

This was for:

In addition, the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), India, awarded a CREST Fellowship to Dr Kundu to enable hime to make an extended visit to Oxford Brookes University in 2012.

The BBSRC grant (BB/G530317/1) runs from 2009 to 2013. In December 2009, there was an opening workshop in Kolkata, and the final event was a closing workshop in Kolkata in January 2013.

A major outcome of this project was a paper describing a Genome Scale Model of Rice, details of which can be found here

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