Agent-Based Modeling of Microbial Communities.

ABSTRACT: Microbial communities are complex living systems that populate the planet with diverse functions and are increasingly harnessed for practical human needs. To deepen the fundamental understanding of their organization and functioning as well as to facilitate their engineering for applications, mathematical modeling has played an increasingly important role. Agent-based models represent a class of powerful quantitative frameworks for investigating microbial communities because of their individualistic nature in describing cells, mechanistic characterization of molecular and cellular processes, and intrinsic ability to produce emergent system properties. This review presents a comprehensive overview of recent advances in agent-based modeling of microbial communities. It surveys the state-of-t

SUBMITTER: Nagarajan K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10129392 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature