Systems-Level Modelling of Microbial Communities: Theory and Practice

ISBN-13: 9781032241791 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 100 str.

Aarthi Ravikrishnan; Karthik Raman

Opis

This book aims to introduce different aspects of modelling microbial communities and deliver a comprehensive overview of the computational methods developed. It focuses on modelling interactions between the microorganisms in a community with more emphasis on mathematical, constraint-based, and network-based modelling techniques.

Spis treści

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction to microbial communities

Chapter 2: Networkbased modelling of microbial communities

Chapter 3: Populationand agentbased modelling of microbial communities

Chapter 4: Constraintbased modelling of microbial communities

Chapter 5: Experimental techniques to understand

Chapter 6: Outlook

Bibilography. Index

O autorze

Aarthi Ravikrishnan is a senior graduate student at the Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta School of Biosciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras. She works on integrating computational and experimental approaches to understand microbial interactions in communities.

Karthik Raman is an Associate Professor at the Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta School of Biosciences, IIT Madras. He also coordinates the Initiative for Biological Systems Engineering and is a core member of the Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at IIT Madras. His group works on computational approaches to understand and manipulate biological networks, with a focus on applications in metabolic engineering.