Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

Automated design of synthetic microbial communities

  • Behzad D. Karkaria,
  • Alex J. H. Fedorec,
  • Chris P. Barnes

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20756-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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In naturally occurring microbial systems, there is a positive relationship between species diversity and productivity of the community. Here the authors perform model selection to find potential amensal interactions that yield robust stable synthetic microbial consortia.