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Microbial communities, or microbiomes, are essential for safeguarding human and environmental health through the most widely used biotechnological process on our planet: biological wastewater treatment. However, the process itself is subject to constant changes, difficult to sustain over long periods of time and emits significant amounts of greenhouse gases.
There is thus an urgent need to predict the behavior of its complex microbiome to better control the process and to improve on its engineering. Researchers from the Systems Ecology group at the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) and the Department of Life Sciences and Medicine of the University of Luxembourg and their international collaborators have now developed a novel modeling approach that can predict the dynamics and functions of such microbial communities several years into the future. The research article is published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution alongside a corresponding Research Briefing.
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