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. 2004 Dec 17;101(52):18006–18011. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405996101

Table 2. Network measures for the metabolic network compared with the other networks.

Networks No. of proteins Average degree Characteristic path length No. of proteins in LC Cavg C > 0, % Isolated nodes, %
Full 4,684 6.1883 4.2383 4,597 0.0846 36.3 0
Essential 1,180 9.5093 3.9546 914 0.1879 44.2 19.9
(P < 9.4 × 10-37) (P < 6.0 × 10-22) (P < 1.4 × 10-9) (P < 2.0 × 10-110) (P < 1.3 × 10-105) (P < 1.5 × 10-12)
Noness. 3,504 5.0699 4.3305 2,967 0.0529 20.7 11.0
(P < 1.5 × 10-35) (P < 9.4 × 10-22) (P < 1.8 × 10-2) (P < 2.5 × 10-13) (P < 2.0 × 10-22) (P < 1.5 × 10-2)
Metabolic 508 4.6024 4.2888 93 0.0276 3.5 64.8
(P < 4 × 10-4) (P < 0.3) (P < 0.98) (P < 0.15) (P < 0.8) (P < 0.68)
No-phenotype 1,855 4.3919 4.4128 981 0.0227 5.9 36.4
(P < 1.1 × 10-6) (P < 3.7 × 10-6) (P < 7.4 × 10-2) (P < 2.3 × 10-2) (P < 3.6 × 10-4) (P < 5.0 × 10-2)
Toxicity-modulating 1,415 6.0283 4.2228 851 0.0584 16.3 34.5
(P < 1.3 × 10-7) (P < 6.8 × 10-6) (P < 8.9 × 10-3) (P < 1.9 × 10-11) (P < 1.1 × 10-18) (P < 2.4 × 10-2)
Metabolic-noness. 395 4.6127 4.3158 21 0.0240 3.3 70.4
(P < 0.3) (P < 0.8) (P < 0.85) (P < 6 × 10-4) (P < 1.2 × 10-3) (P < 0.4)

Values in bold indicate that the measured value is smaller than the one obtained by using the randomized networks; values in italics indicate that the measured value is greater than the one obtained by using the radomized networks. Noness., Nonessential.