Integrating food webs with metabolic networks: modeling contaminant degradation in marine ecosystems

Marine systems biology

“…By using techniques such as Linear Inverse Modeling, Flux Balance Analysis and Ecological Network Analysis, their work opens novel ways for analysis of ecosystems, for in silico evaluation of bioremediation strategies, and also provides insights into the ecological role of microbial communities within food webs. As pinpointed by Basler and Simeonidis ( 2015 ), such an approach will stimulate new developments in ecological modeling and offer powerful insights into the multi-level interplay among ecosystems, microbial networks and biodegradation.…”