Figure 1. Poll results from the COBRA community survey.

The survey was initially compiled and released at the 5^th Annual Conference on Constraint‐based Reconstruction and Analysis (COBRA, October 14–16, 2018); feedback from the conference was used to refine the survey, with an updated version later shared via social media (results are shown here; raw data provided in Dataset EV1). The survey included 16 multiple‐choice and three open‐ended questions to summarize the field's use and awareness of existing standards, as well as collect community‐identified challenges. A total of 89 researchers completed the survey, representing different levels of expertise in the field; some questions permitted multiple responses (panels C and D).