Hundreds of different
bacterial species live in the human gut, helping us to digest our food. The
metabolic processes of these bacteria are not only tremendously important to
our health—they are also tremendously complex. A research team has taken an important
step in modelling the complexity of the human gut’s bacterial communities—the
microbiome—on the computer.
A research team at the
Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of
Luxembourg has taken an important step in modelling the complexity of the human
gut's bacterial communities -- the microbiome -- on the computer. The
researchers gathered all known data on the metabolism of 773 bacterial strains
-- more than ever before. Working from this data, they developed a computer model
for each bacterial strain. This collection, known as AGORA, can now be used on
the computer to simulate metabolic processes taking place in the microbes and
to investigate how they affect the metabolism of other microbes and that of the
human host. The collection of predictive metabolic models is available to
researchers via http://vmh.life.
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Posted by Dr. Tim Sandle
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