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Table 3 Summary of approaches that address sources of uncertainty in biomass formulation. Highlighted in bold are key approaches related to probabilistic or ensemble-based methods

From: Addressing uncertainty in genome-scale metabolic model reconstruction and analysis

Approach

Sources of uncertainty

References

Alternative biomass formulations

Variability in biomass within organisms

[96,97,98,99,100,101]

Environment-dependent biomass formulation

Variability in biomass within organisms

[102]

Cross-organism biomass comparison

Biomass differences across organisms

[87, 88]

Experimental determination

Undefined biomass composition

[103,104,105]

Ensemble sampling

Undefined biomass composition

[106]