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Caption: Six researchers led by UC San Diego bioengineering Professor Bernhard Palsson, right, manually analyzed 1,500 key books, review papers, and legacy scientific reports published over the past 50 years. Left to right, Monica L. Mo, Scott A. Becker, Ines Thiele and Neema Jamshidi are members of a team that used strict quality control criteria accepted by the scientific community to assemble the human metabolic network piece by metabolic piece during more than a year of intense work.
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