Metagenomic systems biology and metabolic modeling of the human microbiome: From species composition to community assembly rules

Gut Microbes

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 265-270

  Levy, Roie ^a   Borenstein, Elhanan ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Community assembly; Computational model; Habitat filtering; Metabolic modeling; Reverse ecology; Species interaction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIET; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOME; MODEL; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; SCORING SYSTEM; SPECIES COMPOSITION; GENETICS; MICROFLORA; PROCEDURES; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

HUMANS; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOTA; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 84899459352     PISSN: 19490976     EISSN: 19490984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/gmic.28261     Document Type: Article

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