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---
name: cobrapy
- description: Constraint-based metabolic modeling (COBRA). FBA, FVA, gene knockouts, flux sampling, SBML models, for systems biology and metabolic engineering analysis.
+ description: Performs constraint-based metabolic modeling with COBRApy, including FBA, pFBA, FVA, gene knockouts, flux sampling, growth media, production envelopes, gap filling, and SBML model validation for systems biology and metabolic engineering.
license: GPL-2.0 license
allowed-tools: Read Write Edit Bash
- compatibility: Requires Python 3.9+ (cobra 0.30+ dropped 3.8). Install with uv pip install. GLPK (swiglpk) is the default solver; CPLEX/Gurobi optional. load_model fetches from bundled data, BiGG, or BioModels (network required for remote models).
+ compatibility: Requires Python 3.9+ and cobra; examples tested with Python 3.12 and cobra 0.32.1. GLPK installs via swiglpk; commercial solvers need separate installation/licensing. Remote model downloads need network access; bundled textbook examples run offline.
metadata:
- version: "1.4"
+ version: "1.5"
skill-author: K-Dense Inc.
+ last-reviewed: "2026-09-30"
---
# COBRApy - Constraint-Based Reconstruction and Analysis
- ## Overview
-
- COBRApy is a Python library for constraint-based reconstruction and analysis (COBRA) of metabolic models, essential for systems biology research. Work with genome-scale metabolic models, perform computational simulations of cellular metabolism, conduct metabolic engineering analyses, and predict phenotypic behaviors.
-
- **Version note:** Examples target **cobra 0.31.1** on PyPI (import `cobra`). Docs: [cobrapy.readthedocs.io](https://cobrapy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/). Repo: [opencobra/cobrapy](https://github.com/opencobra/cobrapy).
-
- ## When to Use This Skill
-
- Use this skill when:
- - Loading, building, or exporting genome-scale metabolic models (SBML, JSON, YAML)
- - Running FBA, pFBA, FVA, or flux sampling on COBRA models
- - Performing gene or reaction knockout screens and production envelope analysis
- - Designing or optimizing growth media and exchange constraints
- - Gap-filling infeasible models or validating model consistency
+ ## When to use
- ## Installation
+ Use for loading/building metabolic networks, optimizing their steady-state fluxes,
+ knockout screens, medium design, feasible-space sampling, and gap-filling hypotheses.
+ FBA is a constraint-based prediction; it does not infer kinetic rates or establish
+ experimental growth, thermodynamic feasibility, or flux identifiability.
- ```bash
- uv pip install "cobra==0.31.1"
- ```
+ ## Setup and reproducibility
- MATLAB model I/O (optional):
+ Targets **cobra 0.32.1** (import `cobra`), checked against its released source and
+ [current documentation](https://cobrapy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).
```bash
- uv pip install "cobra[array]==0.31.1"
+ uv pip install "cobra==0.32.1"
+ # Optional SciPy support for MATLAB I/O and array operations:
+ uv pip install "cobra[array]==0.32.1"
```
- COBRApy uses [optlang](https://optlang.readthedocs.io/) for solvers. GLPK installs automatically via `swiglpk`. For large MILPs/QPs, cobra 0.29+ adds a **hybrid** solver (HIGHS/OSQP); `model.solver = "osqp"` now routes through hybrid and may error on plain LPs in a future release—prefer `model.solver = "hybrid"` when available.
+ Plotting examples additionally require matplotlib, pandas, and seaborn. The
+ `cobra[chrr]` extra supplies hopsy for the new CHRR sampler; that optional backend
+ was documentation-reviewed, not executed in this refresh. In 0.32.1, `sample()`
+ defaults to `method="auto"` (CHRR when hopsy is installed, otherwise OptGP).
+ Choose the method explicitly to avoid environment-dependent changes.
- ## Core Capabilities
+ Record model source/version/checksum, cobra and solver versions, objective,
+ medium, bounds, tolerances, and any random seed with each analysis. GLPK handles
+ the examples below; inspect `cobra.util.solver.solvers` before choosing an
+ optional solver. Use `"hybrid"` for its HiGHS/OSQP interface when installed;
+ the legacy `"osqp"` alias is deprecated. QP methods require a suitable backend.
+ Start with `processes=1`; scripts using multiprocessing need a guarded entry point.
- COBRApy provides comprehensive tools organized into several key areas:
+ ## Workflow
- ### 1. Model Management
+ ### 1. Load, inspect, and validate a model
- Load existing models from repositories or files:
```python
from cobra.io import load_model
- # Bundled locally (no network): textbook, iJO1366, salmonella
- model = load_model("textbook") # alias for e_coli_core (95 reactions)
- model = load_model("e_coli_core") # same core E. coli model
- model = load_model("iJO1366") # genome-scale E. coli (bundled)
- model = load_model("salmonella") # Salmonella iYS1720 (bundled)
-
- # Remote (BiGG / BioModels; requires network, cached after first fetch)
- model = load_model("iML1515") # E. coli genome-scale on BiGG
-
- # Load from files
- from cobra.io import read_sbml_model, load_json_model, load_yaml_model
- model = read_sbml_model("path/to/model.xml")
- model = load_json_model("path/to/model.json")
- model = load_yaml_model("path/to/model.yml")
- ```
-
- Save models in various formats:
- ```python
- from cobra.io import write_sbml_model, save_json_model, save_yaml_model
- write_sbml_model(model, "output.xml") # Preferred format
- save_json_model(model, "output.json") # For Escher compatibility
- save_yaml_model(model, "output.yml") # Human-readable
- ```
-
- ### 2. Model Structure and Components
-
- Access and inspect model components:
- ```python
- # Access components
- model.reactions # DictList of all reactions
- model.metabolites # DictList of all metabolites
- model.genes # DictList of all genes
-
- # Get specific items by ID or index
- reaction = model.reactions.get_by_id("PFK")
- metabolite = model.metabolites[0]
-
- # Inspect properties
- print(reaction.reaction) # Stoichiometric equation
- print(reaction.bounds) # Flux constraints
- print(reaction.gene_reaction_rule) # GPR logic
- print(metabolite.formula) # Chemical formula
- print(metabolite.compartment) # Cellular location
- ```
-
- ### 3. Flux Balance Analysis (FBA)
-
- Perform standard FBA simulation:
- ```python
- # Basic optimization
- solution = model.optimize()
- print(f"Objective value: {solution.objective_value}")
- print(f"Status: {solution.status}")
-
- # Access fluxes
- print(solution.fluxes["PFK"])
- print(solution.fluxes.head())
-
- # Fast optimization (objective value only)
- objective_value = model.slim_optimize()
-
- # Change objective
- model.objective = "ATPM"
- solution = model.optimize()
- ```
-
- Parsimonious FBA (minimize total flux):
- ```python
- from cobra.flux_analysis import pfba
- solution = pfba(model)
- ```
+ # These names are bundled: textbook, iJO1366, salmonella.
+ model = load_model("textbook") # model.id is e_coli_core; 95 reactions
+ model.solver = "glpk"
+ print(model.id, len(model.reactions), len(model.metabolites), len(model.genes))
+ print(model.reactions.get_by_id("PFK").reaction)
+ print(model.reactions.PFK.gene_reaction_rule)
+ print(model.medium)
- Geometric FBA (find central solution):
- ```python
- from cobra.flux_analysis import geometric_fba
- solution = geometric_fba(model)
+ solution = model.optimize(raise_error=True)
+ assert solution.status == "optimal"
+ print(solution.objective_value, solution.fluxes["PFK"])
+ # error_value=None raises on a failed solve; the default instead returns NaN.
+ baseline = model.slim_optimize(error_value=None)
+ assert baseline > 0
```
- ### 4. Flux Variability Analysis (FVA)
-
- Determine flux ranges for all reactions:
- ```python
- from cobra.flux_analysis import flux_variability_analysis
-
- # Standard FVA
- fva_result = flux_variability_analysis(model)
-
- # FVA at 90% optimality
- fva_result = flux_variability_analysis(model, fraction_of_optimum=0.9)
-
- # Loopless FVA (eliminates thermodynamically infeasible loops)
- fva_result = flux_variability_analysis(model, loopless=True)
+ `e_coli_core` is a remote BiGG identifier, **not** a bundled alias for `textbook`.
+ The released remote adapters encounter redirects on current BiGG/BioModels URLs;
+ see [model I/O](references/api_quick_reference.md) for verified download routes
+ and local SBML loading. Do not assume `load_model` caches: its 0.32.1 implementation
+ accepts `cache` but does not use it. Save source files for reproducibility.
- # FVA for specific reactions
- fva_result = flux_variability_analysis(
- model,
- reaction_list=["PFK", "FBA", "PGI"]
- )
- ```
+ Check chemical formulas/charges and boundary annotations separately from solver
+ feasibility. Review excluded biomass/pseudo reactions and missing chemistry;
+ an empty imbalance dictionary alone cannot establish a chemically valid model.
+ The [validation workflow](references/workflows.md) distinguishes those cases.
- ### 5. Gene and Reaction Deletion Studies
+ ### 2. Compare FBA, pFBA, and FVA under stated constraints
- Perform knockout analyses:
```python
- from cobra.flux_analysis import (
- single_gene_deletion,
- single_reaction_deletion,
- double_gene_deletion,
- double_reaction_deletion
- )
+ from cobra.flux_analysis import pfba, geometric_fba, flux_variability_analysis
- # Single deletions
- gene_results = single_gene_deletion(model)
- reaction_results = single_reaction_deletion(model)
+ biomass_id = "Biomass_Ecoli_core" # inspect IDs/objective for each new model
+ parsimonious = pfba(model)
+ print(parsimonious.fluxes[biomass_id])
+ # parsimonious.objective_value is the minimized total flux, not biomass growth.
+ centered = geometric_fba(model, processes=1)
- # Double deletions (uses multiprocessing)
- double_gene_results = double_gene_deletion(
- model,
- processes=4 # Number of CPU cores
+ fva = flux_variability_analysis(
+ model, reaction_list=["PFK", "FBA", "PGI"],
+ fraction_of_optimum=0.9, processes=1,
)
-
- # Manual knockout using context manager
- with model:
- model.genes.get_by_id("b0008").knock_out()
- solution = model.optimize()
- print(f"Growth after knockout: {solution.objective_value}")
- # Model automatically reverts after context exit
- ```
-
- ### 6. Growth Media and Minimal Media
-
- Manage growth medium:
- ```python
- # View current medium
- print(model.medium)
-
- # Modify medium (must reassign entire dict)
- medium = model.medium
- medium["EX_glc__D_e"] = 10.0 # Set glucose uptake
- medium["EX_o2_e"] = 0.0 # Anaerobic conditions
- model.medium = medium
-
- # Calculate minimal media
- from cobra.medium import minimal_medium
-
- # Minimize total import flux
- min_medium = minimal_medium(model, minimize_components=False)
-
- # Minimize number of components (uses MILP, slower)
- min_medium = minimal_medium(
- model,
- minimize_components=True,
- open_exchanges=True
+ loopless_fva = flux_variability_analysis(
+ model, reaction_list=["PFK", "FBA", "PGI"],
+ fraction_of_optimum=0.9, loopless="fastSNP", processes=1,
)
- ```
-
- ### 7. Flux Sampling
-
- Sample the feasible flux space:
- ```python
- from cobra.sampling import sample
-
- # Sample using OptGP (default, supports parallel processing)
- samples = sample(model, n=1000, method="optgp", processes=4)
-
- # Sample using ACHR
- samples = sample(model, n=1000, method="achr")
-
- # Validate the returned sample DataFrame (small, reproducible smoke check)
- from cobra.sampling import OptGPSampler
- from collections import Counter
- sampler = OptGPSampler(model, processes=1, seed=7)
- flux_samples = sampler.sample(20)
- validation = sampler.validate(flux_samples)
- print(Counter(validation)) # Codes other than 'v' require investigation
+ print(fva) # index: reaction ID; columns: minimum, maximum
```
- ### 8. Production Envelopes
-
- Calculate phenotype phase planes:
- ```python
- from cobra.flux_analysis import production_envelope
-
- # Standard production envelope
- envelope = production_envelope(
- model,
- reactions=["EX_glc__D_e", "EX_o2_e"],
- objective="EX_ac_e" # Acetate production
- )
-
- # With carbon yield
- envelope = production_envelope(
- model,
- reactions=["EX_glc__D_e", "EX_o2_e"],
- carbon_sources="EX_glc__D_e"
- )
-
- # Visualize (use matplotlib or pandas plotting)
- import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
- envelope.plot(x="EX_glc__D_e", y="EX_o2_e", kind="scatter")
- plt.show()
- ```
+ FVA extrema are optimized separately and need not be jointly achievable.
+ `loopless="fastSNP"` computes loopless bounds; `"cycleFreeFlux"` is an alternative
+ that need not find the optimal bounds. Boolean `loopless` arguments are deprecated.
+ Loop removal does not impose measured Gibbs energies or metabolite concentrations.
+ Fractional objective thresholds here assume a positive biomass maximization
+ objective; use an explicit constraint for other objective signs/directions.
- ### 9. Gapfilling
+ ### 3. Knockouts and media
- Add reactions to make models feasible:
```python
- from cobra.flux_analysis import gapfill
+ from cobra.flux_analysis import single_gene_deletion
+ from cobra.medium import minimal_medium
- # Provide a universal reaction database (SBML/JSON); not bundled in cobra 0.31+
- from cobra.io import read_sbml_model
- universal = read_sbml_model("path/to/universal_reactions.xml")
+ results = single_gene_deletion(model, processes=1)
+ valid = results[results.status.eq("optimal") & results.growth.notna()]
+ low_growth = valid[valid.growth < 0.01 * baseline] # declared 1% criterion
+ unresolved = results[~results.index.isin(valid.index)]
+ print(low_growth[["ids", "growth"]], unresolved[["ids", "status"]])
- # Perform gapfilling
with model:
- # Remove reactions to create gaps for demonstration
- model.remove_reactions([model.reactions.PGI])
-
- # Find reactions needed
- solution = gapfill(model, universal)
- print(f"Reactions to add: {solution}")
- ```
-
- ### 10. Model Building
-
- Build models from scratch:
- ```python
- from cobra import Model, Reaction, Metabolite
-
- # Create model
- model = Model("my_model")
-
- # Create metabolites
- atp_c = Metabolite("atp_c", formula="C10H12N5O13P3",
- name="ATP", compartment="c")
- adp_c = Metabolite("adp_c", formula="C10H12N5O10P2",
- name="ADP", compartment="c")
- pi_c = Metabolite("pi_c", formula="HO4P",
- name="Phosphate", compartment="c")
-
- # Create reaction
- reaction = Reaction("ATPASE")
- reaction.name = "ATP hydrolysis"
- reaction.subsystem = "Energy"
- reaction.lower_bound = 0.0
- reaction.upper_bound = 1000.0
-
- # Add metabolites with stoichiometry
- reaction.add_metabolites({
- atp_c: -1.0,
- adp_c: 1.0,
- pi_c: 1.0
- })
-
- # Add gene-reaction rule
- reaction.gene_reaction_rule = "(gene1 and gene2) or gene3"
-
- # Add to model
- model.add_reactions([reaction])
-
- # Add boundary reactions
- model.add_boundary(atp_c, type="exchange")
- model.add_boundary(adp_c, type="demand")
+ medium = model.medium
+ medium["EX_o2_e"] = 0.0
+ model.medium = medium # editing the returned dict alone does not change model
+ anaerobic = model.optimize()
+ print(anaerobic.status, anaerobic.objective_value)
- # Set objective
- model.objective = "ATPASE"
+ min_medium = minimal_medium(model, 0.5 * baseline, minimize_components=True)
+ if min_medium is None:
+ raise RuntimeError("No medium found at the requested growth target")
+ with model:
+ model.medium = min_medium.to_dict()
+ assert model.slim_optimize(error_value=None) >= 0.5 * baseline - 1e-6
```
- ## Common Workflows
-
- ### Workflow 1: Load Model and Predict Growth
-
- ```python
- from cobra.io import load_model
-
- # Load model (textbook = fast tutorial; iJO1366 / iML1515 for genome-scale)
- model = load_model("textbook")
-
- # Run FBA
- solution = model.optimize()
- print(f"Growth rate: {solution.objective_value:.3f} /h")
+ Deletion results contain `ids` **sets**, `growth`, and `status`; the index is not a
+ pair MultiIndex. Double-deletion results also contain singleton sets (self-pairs).
+ Classify failed/infeasible solves separately from feasible low-growth mutants.
+ A knockout's `growth` column means the model's objective, so ensure it is biomass.
- # Show active pathways
- print(solution.fluxes[solution.fluxes.abs() > 1e-6])
- ```
+ `model.medium` values are positive import bounds, not measured concentrations.
+ Exchange flux signs depend on reaction stoichiometry; the textbook's one-reactant
+ exchanges use negative flux for uptake. `open_exchanges=False` retains the allowed
+ nutrient universe while the optimizer selects a nutrient subset and its import
+ bounds; it does not fix the selected nutrients or amounts. `open_exchanges=True`
+ expands that universe and can choose unintended carbon sources. Minimal media can
+ be nonunique; validate the returned medium with the intended growth objective.
- ### Workflow 2: Gene Knockout Screen
+ ### 4. Sample the same feasible region as the FVA comparison
```python
- from cobra.io import load_model
- from cobra.flux_analysis import single_gene_deletion
-
- # Load model
- model = load_model("textbook")
- baseline = model.slim_optimize()
-
- # Perform single gene deletions
- results = single_gene_deletion(model)
-
- # Find essential genes (growth < threshold)
- essential_genes = results[results["growth"] < 0.01]
- print(f"Found {len(essential_genes)} essential genes")
+ from cobra.sampling import OptGPSampler
- # Find genes with minimal impact
- neutral_genes = results[results["growth"] > 0.9 * baseline]
+ with model:
+ model.reactions.get_by_id(biomass_id).lower_bound = 0.9 * baseline
+ # The growth floor is already installed. fraction=0 adds no stronger optimum.
+ sampled_fva = flux_variability_analysis(
+ model, reaction_list=["PFK"], fraction_of_optimum=0.0, processes=1,
+ )
+ sampler = OptGPSampler(model, processes=1, thinning=100, seed=7)
+ samples = sampler.sample(200)
+ codes = sampler.validate(samples)
+ assert (codes == "v").all(), "Inspect bound/equality violations"
+ assert (samples[biomass_id] >= 0.9 * baseline - 1e-6).all()
+ print(samples["PFK"].describe(), sampled_fva)
```
- ### Workflow 3: Media Optimization
-
- ```python
- from cobra.io import load_model
- from cobra.medium import minimal_medium
-
- # Load model
- model = load_model("textbook")
-
- # Calculate minimal medium for 50% of max growth
- target_growth = model.slim_optimize() * 0.5
- min_medium = minimal_medium(
- model,
- target_growth,
- minimize_components=True
- )
-
- print(f"Minimal medium components: {len(min_medium)}")
- print(min_medium)
- ```
+ FVA does not leave its objective-fraction constraint on the model; sampling a
+ fresh/unconstrained model explores a different space. Feasible samples are not
+ a confidence interval for measured biology. Inspect independent chains,
+ autocorrelation and effective sample size before interpreting distributions;
+ 200 samples are a smoke test. Sampling can include internal cycles.
- ### Workflow 4: Flux Uncertainty Analysis
+ ### 5. Production envelopes and design hypotheses
```python
- from cobra.io import load_model
- from cobra.flux_analysis import flux_variability_analysis
- from cobra.sampling import sample
-
- # Load model
- model = load_model("textbook")
-
- # First check flux ranges at optimality
- fva = flux_variability_analysis(model, fraction_of_optimum=1.0)
-
- # For reactions with large ranges, sample to understand distribution
- samples = sample(model, n=1000)
-
- # Analyze specific reaction
- reaction_id = "PFK"
- import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
- samples[reaction_id].hist(bins=50)
- plt.xlabel(f"Flux through {reaction_id}")
- plt.ylabel("Frequency")
- plt.show()
- ```
-
- ### Workflow 5: Context Manager for Temporary Changes
+ from cobra.flux_analysis import production_envelope
- Use context managers to make temporary modifications:
- ```python
- # Model remains unchanged outside context
with model:
- # Temporarily change objective
- model.objective = "ATPM"
-
- # Temporarily modify bounds
- model.reactions.EX_glc__D_e.lower_bound = -5.0
-
- # Temporarily knock out genes
- model.genes.b0008.knock_out()
-
- # Optimize with changes
- solution = model.optimize()
- print(f"Modified growth: {solution.objective_value}")
-
- # All changes automatically reverted
- solution = model.optimize()
- print(f"Original growth: {solution.objective_value}")
+ model.reactions.get_by_id(biomass_id).lower_bound = 0.1 * baseline
+ envelope = production_envelope(
+ model, reactions=["EX_glc__D_e"], objective="EX_ac_e",
+ carbon_sources=["EX_glc__D_e"], points=8,
+ )
+ print(envelope[["EX_glc__D_e", "flux_minimum", "flux_maximum"]])
```
- ## Key Concepts
-
- `DictList` access patterns, flux-bound conventions, gene-reaction rules (GPR), and the
- `EX_` exchange-reaction sign convention are covered in
- `references/api_quick_reference.md` under "Key Concepts".
-
- ## Best Practices
+ These are acetate **flux** extrema; `carbon_yield_*` and `mass_yield_*` are
+ separate outputs, potentially NaN when inputs or formulas are unsuitable.
+ A multi-reaction grid needs a surface/heatmap, not an arbitrary connected line.
+ When zero flux is already allowed for the affected reactions, a knockout only
+ removes feasible states and cannot improve the global product maximum under
+ otherwise identical constraints. Check that knockout bound replacement does not
+ relax an original forced nonzero flux. The [design workflow](references/workflows.md)
+ screens the minimum product flux at a common growth requirement and also reports
+ maximum growth, an explicit model-based coupling hypothesis requiring validation.
- 1. **Use context managers** for temporary modifications to avoid state management issues
- 2. **Validate models** before analysis using `model.slim_optimize()` to ensure feasibility
- 3. **Check solution status** after optimization - `optimal` indicates successful solve
- 4. **Use loopless FVA** when thermodynamic feasibility matters
- 5. **Set fraction_of_optimum** appropriately in FVA to explore suboptimal space
- 6. **Parallelize** computationally expensive operations (sampling, double deletions) — start with small `n` and `processes=1` on genome-scale models
- 7. **Prefer SBML format** for model exchange and long-term storage
- 8. **Use slim_optimize()** when only objective value needed for performance
- 9. **Validate flux samples** to ensure numerical stability
- 10. **Confirm output paths** before writing CSV/PNG files from workflow examples
+ ### 6. Build and gap-fill carefully
- ## Troubleshooting
+ Use `Model`, `Reaction`, `Metabolite`, `model.add_reactions([reaction])`, and
+ `reaction.gene_reaction_rule` to build the network. Set formulas and charges;
+ include water/protons when needed for balanced chemistry. Exchanges belong to
+ external metabolites, demands remove metabolites, and sinks permit both directions.
+ Do not add arbitrary ATP sources to make a model grow.
- **Infeasible solutions**: Check medium constraints, reaction bounds, and model consistency
- **Slow optimization**: Try different solvers (GLPK, CPLEX, Gurobi) via `model.solver`
- **Unbounded solutions**: Verify exchange reactions have appropriate upper bounds
- **Import errors**: Ensure correct file format and valid SBML identifiers
+ [The API reference](references/api_quick_reference.md) includes a balanced toy
+ network and a gap-fill example with a known missing reaction. `gapfill` returns
+ **a list of reaction lists**, one per iteration; it does not modify the input
+ model. Candidate additions are hypotheses: check evidence, directionality,
+ chemistry, energy-generating cycles, and growth after adding copied reactions.
- ## References
+ ## Export and troubleshooting
- For detailed workflows and API patterns, refer to:
- - `references/workflows.md` - Comprehensive step-by-step workflow examples
- - `references/api_quick_reference.md` - Common function signatures and patterns
+ Prefer SBML for exchange, JSON for interoperable tooling, YAML for inspection.
+ Round-trip the file and compare reaction IDs, bounds, objective, and growth.
+ Use context managers for temporary objective/bound/GPR changes. Inspect statuses
+ before reading fluxes; do not turn NaN or every solver failure into zero growth.
+ When debugging infeasibility, test medium changes inside `with model:` and record
+ which constraints changed. Feasibility after opening all nutrients does not
+ establish biological validity. Keep CSV/PNG output in the task's chosen directory.
- Official documentation: https://cobrapy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
+ - [API contracts and current download routes](references/api_quick_reference.md)
+ - [Executed local workflows and their interpretation](references/workflows.md)
+ - [Release notes](https://github.com/opencobra/cobrapy/releases/tag/0.32.1)
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