Studying the Relationship between Robustness against Mutations in Metabolic Networks and Lifestyle of Organisms
Figure 1
(a) Schematic representation of the two-dimensional bond percolation experiment. Conductivity of a steel-wire mesh is studied during the procedure of cutting wires (bonds) in the mesh. The goal is to find an average number of bonds which should be removed until the mesh conductivity vanishes to zero. (b) Schematic representation of our procedure. In each iteration of the modeling, a reaction is knocked out until no reaction can carry a nonzero flux in steady-state conditions.
