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Table 4 Examples of substrate annotation ranking

From: Combining multiple functional annotation tools increases coverage of metabolic annotation

Rank

Substrate

Examples

1

Metabolite that can be incorporated as a transport reaction in a metabolic model

• Fe

• lysine

2

Substrate(s) that map to a small number of possible transport reactions

• Mg/Co/Ni

• aromatic amino acid

3

Broader substrate classes not directly usable to construct a metabolic network

• dipeptide

• sugar

4

Very broad class of substrates

• multidrug efflux

• protein

5

No substrate annotated

 
  1. Transporter substrates were ranked from most specific (rank 1) to least specific (no substrate, rank 5). See Additional file 3 for the full table