Section: New Software and Platforms

Metage2Metabo

Keywords: Metabolic networks - Microbiota - Metagenomics - Workflow

Functional Description: Metabolic networks are graphs which nodes are compounds and edges are biochemical reactions. To study the metabolic capabilities of microbiota, Metage2Metabo uses multiprocessing to reconstruct metabolic networks at large-scale. The individual and collective metabolic capabilities (number of compounds producible) are computed and compared. From these comparisons, a set of compounds only producible by the community is created. These newly producible compounds are used to find minimal communities that can produce them. From these communities, the keytstone species in the production of these compounds are identified.

News Of The Year: First release.

• Contact: Anne Siegel

• Publication: Metage2Metabo: metabolic complementarity applied to genomes of large-scale microbiotas for the identification of keystone species

• URL: https://github.com/AuReMe/metage2metabo