AI Article Synopsis
- Understanding the metabolism of microbial communities is complex, but researchers are making progress.
- A recent study focuses on denitrification, a process where nitrates are reduced, and finds it can be predicted by analyzing the genomes of the microbes involved.
- The study also demonstrates that mathematical models can effectively predict denitrification rates for communities made up of two to five different species.
Article Abstract
Making sense of the metabolism of microbial communities is a daunting task. Using denitrification as a model metabolism, a new paper shows that the rate of denitrification can often be predicted from genome contents, and dynamical models can be composed to predict denitrification rates of communities of two to five species.
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