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This article is part of the supplement: Selected papers from the Seventh Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC 2009)

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Genome-scale analysis to the impact of gene deletion on the metabolism of E. coli: constraint-based simulation approach

Zixiang Xu1*, Xiao Sun1 and Shihai Yu2

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1 State Key Laboratory of Bioelectronics, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, PR China

2 Institute of science, PLA University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 211101, PR China

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BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10(Suppl 1):S62 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-S1-S62

Published: 30 January 2009

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The detailed comparison. The file (detailed_comparison.xls) includes two contents: The first is the comparison between those 188 essential genes reported in Ref. [5] and those 195 important genes that we obtained from computation. The second is the comparison between p and f of every gene deletion that we obtained from computation.

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