Remarkable technological advances have revealed ever more properties and behaviours of
individual microorganisms, but the novel data generated by these techniques have not yet …

This mini-review discusses agent-based models as modeling techniques for studying
pattern formation of multi-cellular systems in biology. We introduce and compare different …

Recent advances focusing on the metabolic interactions within and between cellular
populations have emphasized the importance of microbial communities for human health …

Microbial communities are complex living systems that populate the planet with diverse
functions and are increasingly harnessed for practical human needs. To deepen the …

Synthetic biology uses living cells as the substrate for performing human-defined
computations. Many current implementations of cellular computing are based on the …

Intelligent agents and healthcare have been intimately linked in the last years. The intrinsic
complexity and diversity of care can be tackled with the flexibility, dynamics and reliability of …

Biological systems exhibit complex behaviours that emerge at many different levels of
organization. These span the regulation of gene expression within single cells to the use of …

Accurate predictive modelling of the growth of microbial communities requires the credible
representation of the interactions of biological, chemical and mechanical processes …

Microbial communities execute metabolic pathways to drive global nutrient cycles. Within a
community, functionally specialized strains can perform different yet complementary steps …

Microbiomes are complex and ubiquitous networks of microorganisms whose seemingly
limitless chemical transformations could be harnessed to benefit agriculture, medicine, and …