title: Structural and Functional Analysis of Giant Strong Component of Bacillus thuringiensis Metabolic Network.
abstract: The purpose of this work was to study the giant strong component (GSC) of B. thuringiensis metabolic network by structural and functional analysis. Based on so-called "bow tie" structure, we extracted and studied GSC with its functional significance. Global structural properties such as degree distribution and average path length were computed and indicated that the GSC is also a small-world and scale-free network. Furthermore, the GSC was decomposed and functional significant for metabolism of these divisions were investigated by comparing to KEGG metabolic pathways.
authors.affiliation: School of Information Technology, Jiangnan University , Wuxi 214036 , China ; Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Chizhou College , Chizhou 247000 , China.
authors.forename: D W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.forename: Y R
authors.initials: YR
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.forename: L N
authors.initials: LN
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Y J
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Cai
authors.forename: W B
authors.initials: WB
authors.lastname: Xu
keywords: Bacillus thuringiensis; Giant Strong Component; metabolic network
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