From network analysis to functional metabolic modeling of the human gut microbiota

mSystems

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2018, Pages

  Bauer, Eugen ^a   Thiele, Ines ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Computational modeling; Constraint based modeling; Gut microbiome; Metabolic modeling; Network approaches

Indexed keywords

COMPARTMENT MODEL; COMPUTER MODEL; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; LEARNING ALGORITHM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NETWORK LEARNING; NONHUMAN; POPULATION MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 85046885252     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23795077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mSystems.00209-17     Document Type: Review

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