Open AccessPairing off: a bottom‐up approach to the human gut microbiome
Author(s) -
Abreu Clare,
Ortiz Lopez Anthony,
Gore Jeff
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
molecular systems biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 8.523
H-Index - 148
ISSN - 1744-4292
DOI - 10.15252/msb.20188425
Subject(s) - library science , microbiome , biology , bioinformatics , computer science
The human gut microbiome has been implicated in a variety of health outcomes, and extensive research has aimed to understand its composition and function, primarily via metagenomic analyses. An examination of how the microbiome develops and interacts through interspecies competition and cooperation has been lacking so far. In their recent work, Venturelli et al ([Venturelli OS, 2018]) build a synthetic gut community and accurately predict its dynamics with a simple network of pairwise interactions.