ReviewJournal of molecular biology2016
Synthetic Ecology of Microbes: Mathematical Models and Applications.
Review in Journal of molecular biology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 105 papers.
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105 citing papers in PubMed.
- Metabolic Modelling Facilitates the Design of Synthetic Communities by Simplifying Natural Microbial Communities.Environmental microbiology · 2026Article
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- From diet to function: using synthetic microbial communities to map gut microbial interactions.NPJ biofilms and microbiomes · 2026Review
- MOFA: microbial optimization without forced altruism.BMC bioinformatics · 2026Article
- Microbial biotechnology meets ecological theory: a unified framework to design industrial microbial consortia.International microbiology : the official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology · 2026Review
- Exploring cooperation among social pathogens: a computational perspective.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2026Review
- Statistical design of a synthetic microbiome that suppresses diverse gut pathogens.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Engineering microbial consortia for mixed plastic upcycling.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Identification of dynamic models of microbial communities: A workflow addressing identifiability and modeling pitfalls.PLoS computational biology · 2025Article
- Genetically Engineered Probiotics: Design, Therapeutics, and Clinical Translation.Iranian biomedical journal · 2025Review
- Predicting rhizosphere-competence-related catabolic gene clusters in plant-associated bacteria with rhizoSMASH.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Creating a designer cyanobacterial ecosystem for the sustainable production of biomass rich in sun-protecting compounds: mycosporine-like amino acids and scytonemin.Archives of microbiology · 2025Review
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- A Review on the Interaction of Acetic Acid Bacteria and Microbes in Food Fermentation: A Microbial Ecology Perspective.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Model-free prediction of microbiome compositions.Microbiome · 2024Article
- Strategies for tailoring functional microbial synthetic communities.The ISME journal · 2024Review
- The human gut metacommunity as a conceptual aid in the development of precision medicine.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- Bottom-up construction and screening of algae-bacteria consortia for pollutant biodegradation.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- Plants and endophytes interaction: a "secret wedlock" for sustainable biosynthesis of pharmaceutically important secondary metabolites.Microbial cell factories · 2023Review
- A structured evaluation of genome-scale constraint-based modeling tools for microbial consortia.PLoS computational biology · 2023Article
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Abstract
As the indispensable role of natural microbial communities in many aspects of life on Earth is uncovered, the bottom-up engineering of synthetic microbial consortia with novel functions is becoming an attractive alternative to engineering single-species systems. Here, we summarize recent work on synthetic microbial communities with a particular emphasis on open challenges and opportunities in environmental sustainability and human health. We next provide a critical overview of mathematical approaches, ranging from phenomenological to mechanistic, to decipher the principles that govern the function, dynamics and evolution of microbial ecosystems. Finally, we present our outlook on key aspects of microbial ecosystems and synthetic ecology that require further developments, including the need for more efficient computational algorithms, a better integration of empirical methods and model-driven analysis, the importance of improving gene function annotation, and the value of a standardized library of well-characterized organisms to be used as building blocks of synthetic communities.
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