Characterizing the Metabolism of Dehalococcoides with a Constraint-Based Model
Figure 2
Distribution of dispensable and unique metabolic genes in different Dehalococcoides strains.
Colors are assigned to further categorize the genes according to their function identified from annotation and verified by different bioinformatic analyses. Each color except black signifies the presence of a corresponding metabolic gene while black indicates the absence of the corresponding gene. Genes belonging to amino acid metabolism, lipid metabolism and nucleotide metabolism are small in number; hence, included in ‘other’ category. This heat map essentially describes the differences among Dehalococcoides strains from the context of metabolic genes.