Microbiome Modelling Toolbox 2.0: efficient, tractable modelling of microbiome communities.

Heinken, Almut; Thiele, Ines · Bioinformatics · 2022

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Constraint-Based Reconstruction and Analysis (COBRA) is a widely used approach for the interrogation and stratification of microbiome samples, yet applications to large-scale cohorts are hampered by limited scalability and efficiency of simulations. We substantially improved the computation speed and scalability of a previous implementation for the construction and interrogation of personalized constraint-based microbiome models as well as implemented additional functionalities for analysis and visualization. Microbiome Modelling Toolbox and tutorials are freely available as part of the COBRA Toolbox at https://git.io/microbiomeModelingToolbox.

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