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Figure 1: The growth simulations for the AGORA and BiGG models.
Figure 2: The blocked reactions and reactions involved in thermodynamically infeasible loops in 100 models.
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Babaei, P., Shoaie, S., Ji, B. et al. Challenges in modeling the human gut microbiome. Nat Biotechnol 36, 682–686 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.4213

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