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Table 1 Properties of E. coli network models discussed in the text. ColiGS and ColiCore are slightly modified versions of iAF1260 [7] and of the model presented in [12], respectively. All models are available in SBML format at http://www2.mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de/projects/cna/etcdownloads.html

From: An algorithm for the reduction of genome-scale metabolic network models to meaningful core models

 

E. coli genome-scale model (ColiGS)

E. coli pruned model (ColiPruned)

E. coli pruned and compressed model (ColiPrunedComp)

E. coli core model of Orth et al. [12] (ColiCore)

# reactions

2384

455

105

88

# int. metabolites

1669

438

85

69

# ext. metabolites

305

33

33

17

degrees of freedom

753

26

26

24

# conservation relations

38

9

6

5

# enzyme subsets (# containing reactions)

321 (890)

23 (413)

22 (62)

23 (55)

μ max (aerobic)

0.9290 h−1

0.9288 h−1

0.9288 h−1

0.8739 h−1

μ max (anaerobic)

0.2309 h−1

0.2309 h−1

0.2309 h−1

0.2117 h−1