Advances in Microbial Community Engineering
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 November 2021) | Viewed by 403
Special Issue Editor
Interests: optimisation of bioprocesses; mathematical modelling of microbial communities
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues
Mathematical modelling has proven an invaluable tool for numerous fields, providing emerging and disruptive technologies which are fuelling the Forth Industrial Revolution. The complexity of microbial systems, however, still poses a great challenge for modelling.
Microorganisms live in complex communities, and their activity and interactions at microscale determine the properties we measure at the macroscale. The mathematical models developed to describe and predict the microbial community behaviour vary widely in scale, focus, and complexity. In the era of -omics, high-throughput data, and machine learning, one can imagine models which would go from genome- to system-scale and guide the technologies involving engineered microbial systems.
This Special Issue on “Advances in Microbial Community Engineering” calls for contributions on recent advances in computational and mathematical modelling for microbial communities. We also welcome papers on the application of Artificial Intelligence in environmental biotechnology in general, and in the engineering of microbial communities in particular.
Dr. Dana Ofiteru
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- microbial communities
- mathematical modelling
- mechanistic models
- meta-omics
- machine learning
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