The week 28. Nov - 4. Dec was spent in Iceland. Work week began with the Korean Zymomonas mobilis metabolic model analysis. In consultation with colleagues in Latvian the model bottleneck localization was made. The model first level debugging was carried out.

With the help of Iceland University Systems Biology experts metabolites mass and charge balancing was conducted. Icelandic COBRA toolbox latest addition "Reconstruction tool" was viewed. When you create a computer model of organism metabolism much time is spent searching through inernet databases metabolites chemical formulas (neutral and charger). Often, information on metabolites and enzymes are fragmented and not available in one or two databases. However, there is no single database that contains information about all metabolites. Furthermore, if metabolite is in the paricular database, there is no guarantee, that information is complete. It was quite usual situation that there was no charge awailable in a database - only visual structure. Often are occasions when a specific metabolite has no information. In such cases, experience of foreign colleagues in metabolic modeling is very useful.