  Reactions forming a pathway can be rewritten by making explicit the different
molecular components involved in them. A molecular component represents a
biological entity (e.g. a protein) in all its states (free, bound, degraded,
etc.). In this paper we show the application of a component identification
algorithm to a number of real-world models to experimentally validate the
approach. Components identification allows subpathways to be computed to better
understand the pathway functioning.
