Fig. 1: Effect of algorithm parameters on minimal microbiome size and butyrate production rate.
From: Designing function-specific minimal microbiomes from large microbial communities
The three panels show the number of organisms in the minimal microbiomes when the parameters gr_opt_frac - minimum individual growth rate fraction for metabolite production (a), gr_frac - minimum growth rate fraction in minimal microbiome (b) and scfa_frac - minimum metabolite production fraction in minimal microbiome (c) are varied, for the 9-member community on a high-fibre diet. In (a), the corresponding butyrate production rates when gr_opt_frac is varied are indicated on the secondary Y-axis.
