SteadyCom: Predicting microbial abundances while ensuring community stability

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2017, Pages

  Chan, Siu Hung Joshua ^a   Simons, Margaret N ^a   Maranas, Costas D ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ITERATIVE METHODS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; METABOLISM;

COMMUNITY IS; COMMUNITY STABILITY; GENOME-SCALE METABOLIC MODELING; GUT MICROBIOTA; MICROBIAL ABUNDANCES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; MODELLING TECHNIQUES; STEADY STATE; TIME-AVERAGED;

FORECASTING;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AUXOTROPHIC MUTANT; BACTEROIDETES; DIET; FIRMICUTES; INTESTINE FLORA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PROTEOBACTERIA; STEADY STATE; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; ALGORITHM; BACTERIUM; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METABOLIC FLUX ANALYSIS; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; BACTERIA; GENOMICS; METABOLIC FLUX ANALYSIS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA;

EID: 85020078941     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005539     Document Type: Article

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