Context-Specific Metabolic Networks Are Consistent with Experiments
Figure 2
The computation of inconsistency scores.
Inconsistency scores for each reaction are computed by multiplying the deviation from a threshold by the required flux through a reaction. In the example here, the green reactions have data above the threshold, set to 12 (this is a parameter; see text). The red reactions have data below the threshold (11.4 and 8.2). The calculation of the inconsistency score corresponding to each reaction is shown numerically as flux multiplied by the deviation from the cutoff. They each increase the inconsistency score, implying that the data are less consistent with the objective of growing on lactate. Greater required fluxes and greater deviation from the threshold both increase the inconsistency scores. The total inconsistency score is the sum of all individual reaction scores.