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. 2014 Jul 1;10(7):737. doi: 10.15252/msb.20145243

Table 1.

Pathway numbers and lengths for MinSpan and pathway databases in Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae

E. coli S. cerevisiae


KEGG EcoCyc Gene Ontology MinSpan (filtered) KEGG YeastCyc Gene Ontology MinSpan (filtered)
Number of pathways 91 199 348 737 74 121 296 298

Average pathway length (number of genes) 5.4 6.6 7.3 13.6 3.9 7.1 7.9 13

Average gene usage 1.6 2.7 2.4 8.9 1.4 2.2 6.1 7.1