Abstract
Systems Biology Can a bacterial cell model vet large datasets from disparate sources? Macklin et al. explored whether a comprehensive mathematical model can be used to verify or find conflicts in massive amounts of data that have been reported for the bacterium Escherichia coli , produced in thousands of papers from hundreds of labs. Although most data were consistent, there were data that could not accommodate known biological results, such as insufficient output of RNA polymerases and ribosomes to produce measured cell-doubling times. Other analyses showed that for some essential proteins, no RNA may be transcribed or translated in a cell's lifetime, but viability can be maintained without certain enzymes through a pool of stable metabolites produced earlier. Science , this issue p. [eaav3751][1] [1]: /lookup/doi/10.1126/science.aav3751
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