PyCoMo: a python package for community metabolic model creation and analysis

Author(s)
Michael Predl, Marianne Mießkes, Thomas Rattei, Jürgen Zanghellini
Abstract

SUMMARY: PyCoMo is a python package for quick and easy generation of genome-scale compartmentalized community metabolic models that are compliant with current openCOBRA file formats. The resulting models can be used to predict (i) the maximum growth rate at a given abundance profile, (ii) the feasible community compositions at a given growth rate, and (iii) all exchange metabolites and cross-feeding interactions in a community metabolic model independent of the abundance profile; we demonstrate PyCoMo's capability by analysing methane production in a previously published simplified biogas community metabolic model.

AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: PyCoMo is freely available under an MIT licence at github.com/univieCUBE/PyCoMo, the Python Package Index, and Zenodo.

Organisation(s)
Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, Department of Analytical Chemistry
External organisation(s)
acib – Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology, Doctoral School in Microbiology and Environmental Science
Journal
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
Volume
40
ISSN
1367-4803
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btae153
Publication date
04-2024
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
106005 Bioinformatics
Keywords
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Computational Mathematics, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Statistics and Probability, Computer Science Applications, Computational Theory and Mathematics
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/pycomo-a-python-package-for-community-metabolic-model-creation-and-analysis(41ab7827-51d0-4e0a-b4e8-4f1f73272d2c).html