Metabolic network modeling of microbial interactions in natural and engineered environmental systems

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue MAY, 2016, Pages

  Perez Garcia, Octavio ^a   Lear, Gavin ^b   Singhal, Naresh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Environmental biotechnology; Flux balance analysis; Genome scale metabolic model; Metabolic network; Microbial communities; Process engineering; Systems biology; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

BI LEVEL OPTIMIZATION APPROACH; BIOENGINEERING; BIOPROCESS; BIOREACTOR; CATALYSIS; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMICAL REACTION; COMPARTMENT PER GUILD APPROACH; DATA MINING; ENVIRONMENT; FLUX BALANCE ANALYSIS; LUMPED NETWORK APPROACH; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METABOLISM; METABOLITE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; REVIEW; SIMULATION; STOICHIOMETRIC METABOLIC NETWORK MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 84973549920     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00673     Document Type: Review

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