Genome-Scale Metabolic Modeling of Archaea Lends Insight into Diversity of Metabolic Function
Table 1
Model Statistics. The elementary units of genome-scale metabolic models are genes, metabolites, and reactions. These models consist of (1) a metabolic network that describes the connections between metabolites through reactions (often organized by metabolic subsystem), (2) gene-protein-reaction rules that map the gene dependencies of reactions, and (3) connection to their environment through exchange transport reactions.