Metabolic models and gene essentiality data reveal essential and conserved metabolism in prokaryotes

• Joana C. Xavier,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Current address: Institute of Molecular Evolution, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

  Affiliations Department of Biological Engineering, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga, Portugal, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9242-8968

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• Kiran Raosaheb Patil,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6166-8640

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• Isabel Rocha

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: irocha@deb.uminho.pt

  Affiliations Department of Biological Engineering, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga, Portugal, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (ITQB-NOVA), Oeiras, Portugal

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9494-3410

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