Thermotables for biochemistry

This is research programme towards the production of a collection of Chapters for a book on thermodynamics, kinetics and systems biology that is being written by Hans V. Westerhoff. This book will be a successor to 'Thermodynamics and control of biological free-energy transduction, Elsevier, Amsterdam (1987) by Westerhoff, H.V. & Van Dam, K.

The raw data fror our study of optimal biological thermodynamics consist of the names, the phase, the physical chemical molar Gibbs energies of formation and the enthalpies of formation (both in kJ/mol; for Temperature 298.15 K and pressure 1 bar), reported in multiple Tables in the literature, as well as the atomic composition, the electric charge and the phase of the chemical compound. The latter were inferred by looking up the structure of each compound in the literature. These raw data were ...

A Table of the standard metabolic potentials of over a thousand species and blends thereof, of biochemical importance, at two temperatures and 3 pHs. The Table is supplement S3 (Table 2) of _Westerhoff et al (2026) FEBS J. Metabolic thermodynamics: pertinent reference state and energy potentials. In that paper it is described how the metabolic potentials have been calculated from the standard chemical potentials of the corresponding chemical species.

These standard metabolic potentials are the ...

For more than a thousand chemical species of biological interest the table gives standard chemical, standard apparent chemical, and standard metabolic potentials:

• Standard chemical potentials: extracted from various literature references (data sources indicated below the Table)
• Standard apparent chemical potentials as the above standard chemical potentials but further transformed for H+ and ionic strength; for Alberty conditions (pH=7.14, pMg=3.57, I=0.25 M Osm=0 M) and for new biochemical ...