Table 1

Benchmarking Results

Property
Brute-force LP (k = 2)
Random KO + Reduce (k = 10)
NetKO (k = 10)

Number of MCS found
215
223
11,706
Highest Cardinality MCS Obtained
2
3
10
Reactions included in at least one MCS
263
235
355
Number of biomass components targeted
38
41
36
Number of linear programming steps
487,670
7,221,149
113,989

Comparison of our network-based genome-scale knockout design approach (NetKO) with two LP-based methods: The standard genome-scale method for MCS computation for all single and double knockouts (Brute Force LP) and a random knockout approach combined with reduction to minimality for 250,000 cardinality 10 reaction sets (Random KO + reduce).

Imielinski and Belta BMC Systems Biology 2008 2:40   doi:10.1186/1752-0509-2-40