Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

Ecology-guided prediction of cross-feeding interactions in the human gut microbiome

  • Akshit Goyal,
  • Tong Wang,
  • Veronika Dubinkina,
  • Sergei Maslov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21586-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Understanding a complex microbial ecosystem such as the human gut microbiome requires information about both microbial species and the metabolites they produce and secrete. Here, the authors propose an ecology-based computational method to predict hundreds of new experimentally untested cross-feeding interactions in the human gut microbiome.