Rich Club in Metabolic Pathways: Switches

The study of metabolic pathways has been the key areas of interest for researchers in bioinformatics. The data in the form ofpathways provides an organizational and simple form of representing data. Such representation is easy to understand and implement. One ofthe most basic elements of these pathways is switches. Switches may used to connect two complex pathways or may be used in one bigpathway itself to regulate some part of a complex pathway. Many cellular components are found to be performing as switches regulatingvarious activities of the cell. It is of foremost importance to identify such switches in a network to study its effect on the regulation and thefunction of the cell.