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. 2011 Feb 2;6(2):e16605. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016605

Figure 1. Example of the reduction from reaction systems to substance graphs and the generation of modular reaction systems.

Figure 1

In A we see how the two substrates and one product (circles) of a reaction (triangle) gets reduced to a substance graph. An arrow going into a reaction marks the substrate, an arrow going out marks the product. Panel B illustrates a reaction system obtained with the method of the manuscript. The parameter values for this reaction-system example are Inline graphic, Inline graphic, Inline graphic, Inline graphic and Inline graphic. The algorithm proceeds by assembling reactions and metabolites in disjoint clusters (the three larger clusters of distinct colors). Then we add a fraction of metabolites and reactions that can connect to any parts of the system. The larger this fraction of global reactions is, the lower is the network modularity of the projected network.