Computational Investigation of Consistency and Performance of the Biochemical Network of the Malaria Parasite, Plasmodium falciparum

Malaria has been a problem in the public health sector and Sub-saharan African. The most prevalent symptoms of this disease is caused by Plasmodium falciparum, a blood borne pathogen, there has also been a disclosure of resistance to anti malaria drugs in Pf. An intimate process of acquiring insight to an organism’s metabolism is to analyze her network topology deploying computational techniques.

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