gotta follow this up with a shout-out to flux balance analysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_balance_analysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_balance_an

gotta follow this up with a shout-out to flux balance analysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_balance_analysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_balance_analysis I'm TAing intro Bio right now, and I really wish teaching metabolism with toy FBA models was generally part of the pedagogy: http://www.nature.com/nchembio/journal/v8/n6/full/nchembio.969.html http://www.nature.com/nchembio/journal/v8/n6/full/nchembio.9... (my apologies, that probably isn't open access). I think it would go a long way towards getting students to think about metabolism rather than just memorizing it, and it might be a good way to also teach the strengths and limitations of modeling.