= Escherichia coli
{c}
{tag=Gram-negative bacteria}
{tag=Model organism}
= E. Coli
{c}
{synonym}
{title2}
* https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(15)00568-1 2015. Using Genome-scale Models to Predict Biological Capabilities. Edward J. O'Brien, Jonathan M. Monk, Bernhard O. Palsson.
* https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-good-books-on-Escherichia-Coli-E-Coli
Size: 1-2 micrometers long and about 0.25 micrometer in diameter, so: `2 * 0.5 * 0.5 * 10e-18` and thus 0.5 micrometer square.
Reference strain: <E. Coli K-12 MG1655>.
<Genome>:
* 4k <genes>
* 5 Mbps
* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/167
* `wget ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/all/GCF/000/005/845/GCF_000005845.2_ASM584v2/GCF_000005845.2_ASM584v2_genomic.fna.gz`
* `wget -O NC_000913.3.fasta 'https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/api/sequence/NC_000913.3/?report=fasta'`
Synthesis project: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/08/biologists-are-close-reinventing-genetic-code-life
<Omics> modeling: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5611438/ Tools for Genomic and Transcriptomic Analysis of Microbes at Single-Cell Level Zixi Chen, Lei Chen, Weiwen Zhang.
Bibliography:
* https://ecoliwiki.org/colipedia/index.php/Welcome_to_EcoliWiki
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