User profiles for Eivind Almaas

Eivind Almaas

Professor of Systems Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Verified email at ntnu.no
Cited by 4712

Global organization of metabolic fluxes in the bacterium Escherichia coli

E Almaas, B Kovacs, T Vicsek, ZN Oltvai, AL Barabási - Nature, 2004 - nature.com
Cellular metabolism, the integrated interconversion of thousands of metabolic substrates
through enzyme-catalysed biochemical reactions, is the most investigated complex intracellular …

Dynamics of information access on the web

Z Dezsö, E Almaas, A Lukács, B Rácz, I Szakadát… - Physical Review E, 2006 - APS
While current studies on complex networks focus on systems that change relatively slowly in
time, the structure of the most visited regions of the web is altered at the time scale from …

Peeling the yeast protein network

S Wuchty, E Almaas - Proteomics, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
A set of highly connected proteins (or hubs) plays an important role for the integrity of the
protein interaction network of Saccharomyces cerevisae by connecting the network's intrinsic …

Comparative Genome-Scale Metabolic Reconstruction and Flux Balance Analysis of Multiple Staphylococcus aureus Genomes Identify Novel Antimicrobial Drug …

DS Lee, H Burd, J Liu, E Almaas, O Wiest… - Journal of …, 2009 - Am Soc Microbiol
Mortality due to multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection is predicted to surpass
that of human immunodeficiency virus/AIDS in the United States. Despite the various …

Differences in human and chimpanzee gene expression patterns define an evolving network of transcription factors in brain

K Nowick, T Gernat, E Almaas… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
Humans differ from other primates by marked differences in cognitive abilities and a significantly
larger brain. These differences correlate with metabolic changes, as evidenced by the …

Biological impacts and context of network theory

E Almaas - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2007 - journals.biologists.com
Many complex systems can be represented and analyzed as networks, and examples that
have benefited from this approach span the natural sciences. For instance, we now know that …

[HTML][HTML] The activity reaction core and plasticity of metabolic networks

E Almaas, ZN Oltvai, AL Barabási - PLoS computational biology, 2005 - journals.plos.org
Understanding the system-level adaptive changes taking place in an organism in response
to variations in the environment is a key issue of contemporary biology. Current modeling …

Predicting synthetic rescues in metabolic networks

AE Motter, N Gulbahce, E Almaas… - Molecular systems …, 2008 - embopress.org
An important goal of medical research is to develop methods to recover the loss of cellular
function due to mutations and other defects. Many approaches based on gene therapy aim to …

Radiation forces on a micrometer-sized sphere in an evanescent field

E Almaas, I Brevik - JOSA B, 1995 - opg.optica.org
Electromagnetic wave theory is used to predict the radiation forces exerted upon a
micrometer-sized spherical particle illuminated by evanescent waves penetrating across a dielectric …

[HTML][HTML] Addressing uncertainty in genome-scale metabolic model reconstruction and analysis

DB Bernstein, S Sulheim, E Almaas, D Segrè - Genome Biology, 2021 - Springer
The reconstruction and analysis of genome-scale metabolic models constitutes a powerful
systems biology approach, with applications ranging from basic understanding of genotype-…