Synthetic Ecology of Microbes: Mathematical Models and Applications

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 428, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 837-861

  Zomorrodi, Ali R ^a   Segrè, Daniel ^a,b,c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Metabolic engineering; Metabolic network modeling; Microbial communities; Synthetic Biology; Systems Biology

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCIN;

BIOMEDICINE; DISEASES; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; GENE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HYPOCREA JECORINA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METHANOGEN; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; BIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84960804622     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: 10898638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2015.10.019     Document Type: Review

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