Chapter 11

Chapter 11: Modelling cellular interactions #

Host–pathogen systems biology
Forst (2006) Drug Discovery Today

A nice review on host–pathogen systems biology.

Modelling Viral and Immune System Dynamics
Perelson (2002) Nature Reviews Immunology

An authoritative review on modelling the dynamics of viral infections e.g. HIV/HCV.

Immunology for physicists
Perelson (1997) Reviews of Modern Physics

A detailed review of an extraordinary variety of models of the immune system, from a physicist’s perspective.

Boolean models of within-host immune interactions
Thakar and Albert (2010) Current Opinion in Microbiology

An excellent application of Boolean network modelling to study host–pathogen interactions.

Constraint-based analysis of metabolic capacity of Salmonella typhimurium during host-pathogen interaction
Raghunathan et al. (2009) BMC Systems Biology

A nice application of constraint-based modelling to study host–pathogen interactions.

A systems perspective of host–pathogen interactions: predicting disease outcome in tuberculosis
Raman et al. (2010) Molecular BioSystems

A detailed systems-level model of TB infection, capturing a large number of interactions between the pathogen and the host immune system.

Current trends in modeling host–pathogen interactions
Mukherjee et al. (2013) Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

Another nice review on host–pathogen systems biology.

Metabolic modeling of a mutualistic microbial community
Stolyar et al. (2007) Molecular Systems Biology

The classic paper on applying FBA to model microbial communities.

Enumerating all possible biosynthetic pathways in metabolic networks
Ravikrishnan et al. (2018) Scientific Reports

Details the MetQuest approach to enumerate biosynthetic pathways, which can span even across microbes.

SteadyCom: Predicting microbial abundances while ensuring community stability
Chan et al. (2017) PLoS Computational Biology

An excellent paper detailing the background of community modelling approaches, and focussing on the SteadyCom approach, one of the best approaches based on constraint-based modelling.

Investigating metabolic interactions in a microbial co-culture through integrated modelling and experiments
Ravikrishnan et al. (2020) Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal

An integrated experimental and computational approach, defining an index measuring the metabolic dependency between organisms.

Modelling approaches for studying the microbiome
Kumar et al. (2019) Nature Microbiology

A detailed review on metabolic modelling of microbial communities.