Microbial consortia have been used in biotechnology processes, including fermentation,
waste treatment, and agriculture, for millennia. Today, synthetic biologists are increasingly …

Quantitatively linking the composition and function of microbial communities is a major
aspiration of microbial ecology. Microbial community functions emerge from a complex web …

Microbial communities are composed of cells of varying metabolic capacity, and regularly
include auxotrophs that lack essential metabolic pathways. Through analysis of auxotrophs …

The field of engineered living materials aims to construct functional materials with desirable
properties of natural living systems. A recent study demonstrated the programmed self …

Predictive biology is the next great chapter in synthetic and systems biology, particularly for
microorganisms. Tasks that once seemed infeasible are increasingly being realized such as …

The cheese microbiota comprises a consortium of prokaryotic, eukaryotic and viral
populations, among which lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are majority components with a …

Environmental microbiome engineering is emerging as a potential avenue for climate
change mitigation. In this process, microbial inocula are introduced to natural microbial …

Highlights•Analysis and designing of microbiomes have become a new paradigm in
microbiology.•Understanding and rational engineering of microbiomes require model-based …

Microbes do not live in isolation but in microbial communities. The relevance of microbial
communities is increasing due to growing awareness of their influence on a huge number of …

Computational modeling of microbial communities using GEnome-scale Models (GEMs) of
metabolism is a new frontier in systems biology. Here, we discuss recent developments in …