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Biology of Microbial Communities - Interview
Published on: May 28, 2007
The Microbiome Modeling Toolbox: from microbial interactions to personalized microbial communities
Federico Baldini1, Almut Heinken1, Laurent Heirendt1
1Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette L-4362, Luxembourg.
Motivation:
The application of constraint-based modeling to functionally analyze metagenomic data has been limited so far, partially due to the absence of suitable toolboxes.
Results:
To address this gap, we created a comprehensive toolbox to model (i) microbe-microbe and host-microbe metabolic interactions, and (ii) microbial communities using microbial genome-scale metabolic reconstructions and metagenomic data. The Microbiome Modeling Toolbox extends the functionality of the constraint-based reconstruction and analysis toolbox.
Availability And Implementation:
The Microbiome Modeling Toolbox and the tutorials at https://git.io/microbiomeModelingToolbox.
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