CELLMICROCOSMOS 4.1 - An Interactive Approach to Integrating Spatially Localized Metabolic Networks into a Virtual 3D Cell Environment

The high potential of Bioinformatics research concerning quantitative and qualitative data acquisition such as data warehouses, spatial structure prediction and 3D microscopy conveys the vision of generating a computational virtual cell. This paper discusses an approach which allows the creation and exploration of an abstract compartmented cell environment, which can be used for (semi-)automatic, species- and organelle-specific mapping and the comparison of metabolic data.