EcoFABs: advancing microbiome science through standardized fabricated ecosystems

Karsten Zengler; Kirsten Hofmockel; Nitin S. Baliga; Scott W. Behie; Hans C. Bernstein; James B. Brown; José R. Dinneny; Sheri A. Floge; Samuel P. Forry; Matthias Hess; Scott A. Jackson; Christer Jansson; Stephen R. Lindemann; Jennifer Pett-Ridge; Costas Maranas; Ophelia S. Venturelli; Matthew D. Wallenstein; Elizabeth A. Shank; Trent R. Northen

doi:10.1038/s41592-019-0465-0

EcoFABs: advancing microbiome science through standardized fabricated ecosystems

Karsten Zengler, Kirsten Hofmockel, Nitin S. Baliga, Scott W. Behie, Hans C. Bernstein, James B. Brown, José R. Dinneny, Sheri A. Floge, Samuel P. Forry, Matthias Hess, Scott A. Jackson, Christer Jansson, Stephen R. Lindemann, Jennifer Pett-Ridge, Costas Maranas, Ophelia S. Venturelli, Matthew D. Wallenstein, Elizabeth A. Shank, Trent R. Northen

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Microbiomes play critical roles in ecosystems and human health, yet in most cases scientists lack standardized and reproducible model microbial communities. The development of fabricated microbial ecosystems, which we term EcoFABs, will provide such model systems for microbiome studies.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	567-571
Number of pages	5
Journal	Nature methods
Volume	16
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-019-0465-0
State	Published - Jul 1 2019

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Zengler, K., Hofmockel, K., Baliga, N. S., Behie, S. W., Bernstein, H. C., Brown, J. B., Dinneny, J. R., Floge, S. A., Forry, S. P., Hess, M., Jackson, S. A., Jansson, C., Lindemann, S. R., Pett-Ridge, J., Maranas, C., Venturelli, O. S., Wallenstein, M. D., Shank, E. A., & Northen, T. R. (2019). EcoFABs: advancing microbiome science through standardized fabricated ecosystems. Nature methods, 16(7), 567-571. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-019-0465-0

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