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In contrast to single strain engineering, the effective and high-throughput analysis and engineering of microbial consortia face the lack of knowledge, tools and well-defined workflows. This manuscript contributes to fill this important gap with a framework, called FLYCOP (FLexible sYnthetic Consortium OPtimization), which contributes to microbial consortia modeling and engineering, while improving the knowledge about how these communities work. FLYCOP selects the best consortium configuration to optimize a given goal, among multiple and diverse configurations, in a flexible way, taking temporal changes in metabolite concentrations into account.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>In contrast to previous systems optimizing microbial consortia, FLYCOP has novel characteristics to face up to new problems, to represent additional features and to analyze events influencing the consortia behavior. In this manuscript, FLYCOP optimizes a Synechococcus elongatus-Pseudomonas putida consortium to produce the maximum amount of bio-plastic (PHA, polyhydroxyalkanoate), and highlights the influence of metabolites exchange dynamics in a four auxotrophic Escherichia coli consortium with parallel growth. FLYCOP can also provide an explanation about biological evolution driving evolutionary engineering endeavors by describing why and how heterogeneous populations emerge from monoclonal ones.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Availability and implementation<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Code reproducing the study cases described in this manuscript are available on-line: https:\/\/github.com\/beatrizgj\/FLYCOP<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Supplementary information<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/bty561","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,7,6]],"date-time":"2018-07-06T01:20:56Z","timestamp":1530840056000},"page":"i954-i963","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":58,"title":["FLYCOP: metabolic modeling-based analysis and engineering microbial communities"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"34","author":[{"given":"Beatriz","family":"Garc\u00eda-Jim\u00e9nez","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Systems Biology, Centro Nacional de Biotecnolog\u00eda, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient\u00edficas (CNB-CSIC), 28049 Madrid, Spain"}]},{"given":"Jos\u00e9 Luis","family":"Garc\u00eda","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Microbial and Plant Biotechnology Department, Centro de Investigaciones Biol\u00f3gicas (CIB-CSIC), 28040 Madrid, Spain"},{"name":"Applied System Biology and Synthetic Biology Department, Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (I2Sysbio-CSIC-UV), 46980 Paterna, Spain"}]},{"given":"Juan","family":"Nogales","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Systems Biology, Centro Nacional de Biotecnolog\u00eda, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient\u00edficas (CNB-CSIC), 28049 Madrid, Spain"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,9,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023061313505486800_bty561-B1","author":"Armstrong","year":"2017"},{"key":"2023061313505486800_bty561-B2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1243","DOI":"10.1038\/nature08480","article-title":"Genome evolution and adaptation in a long-term experiment with Escherichia coli","volume":"461","author":"Barrick","year":"2009","journal-title":"Nature"},{"key":"2023061313505486800_bty561-B3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"e1005544.","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pcbi.1005544","article-title":"BacArena: individual-based metabolic modeling of heterogeneous microbes in complex communities","volume":"13","author":"Bauer","year":"2017","journal-title":"PLOS Comput. 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