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

Bioinformatics. 2022 Apr 12;38(8):2367-2368. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac082.

Abstract

Motivation: 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.

Results: 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.

Availability and implementation: Microbiome Modelling Toolbox and tutorials are freely available as part of the COBRA Toolbox at https://git.io/microbiomeModelingToolbox.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Metabolic Networks and Pathways
  • Microbiota*
  • Software*