Species names

Any continuous sequence of characters preceding the colon sign (:) on any line in the [mechanism] section is interpreted as a name of a reaction species. The names of reaction species must be at most 32 characters long, ^3.1and must not contain the following characters:

   +   >   <   |   ;   :

Examples of recommended names for biochemical species

   E     E.S     E_S     E-S         E*S
   ESI   E.S.I   E*S*I
   EAB   E.A.B   E*A*B   E.P.Q.R.I   EPQRI
   NADP  Mg      Eu      Ca

Examples of valid names for biochemical species which are not recommended:

   tryptase*inhibitor       ; quite long
   x                        ; not expressive enough

Examples of invalid names:

   enzyme*substrate*inhibitor*metal_ion   ;   too long
   NADP+   Mg(2+)           ; contains '+'
   E * S                    ; remove space

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