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Full factorial construction of synthetic microbial communities.
Article in eLife, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Coexistence Theory for Microbial Ecology, and Vice Versa.Environmental microbiology · 2025Pooled it
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- Systematic profiling of growth interactions in human gut microbiome species.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Engineering rhizobacterial communities for soil and plant health.Microbiology (Reading, England) · 2026Review
- Normative assembly rule reveals fairness in microbial communities.PLoS biology · 2026Article
- Interspecies interactions drive bacterial proteome reorganization and emergent metabolism.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026Article
- Metabolic blueprints of monocultures enable prediction and design of synthetic microbial consortia.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
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Abstract
Constructing combinatorially complete species assemblages is often necessary to dissect the complexity of microbial interactions and to find optimal microbial consortia. At the moment, this is accomplished through either painstaking, labor-intensive liquid handling procedures, or through the use of state-of-the-art microfluidic devices. Here, we present a simple, rapid, low-cost, and highly accessible liquid handling methodology for assembling all possible combinations of a library of microbial strains, which can be implemented with basic laboratory equipment. To demonstrate the usefulness of this methodology, we construct a combinatorially complete set of consortia from a library of eight
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