Liz Newton, Tara Louise Dimopoulos-Bick
Assessing early feasibility of a novel innovation to increase consumer partnership capability within an Australian health innovation organisation using a mixed-method approach
BMJ open
microbial communities vital lives yet ecological functioning dynamics remain poorly understood understanding crucial assessing threats systems leveraging biotechnological applications given temporal dynamics linked community functioning study investigated drivers community succession wine yeast community experimentally generated population dynamics data used create interpretable model gradientboosted regression tree approach model trained temporal data viable species populations various combinations including pairs triplets quadruplets evaluated predictive accuracy input feature importance key findings revealed inoculation dosage nonsaccharomyces species significantly influences performance mixed cultures saccharomyces cerevisiae consistently dominates regardless initial abundance additionally observed multispecies interactions dynamics wickerhamomyces anomalus influenced torulaspora delbrueckii pairwise cultures interaction altered inclusion cerevisiae study provides insights yeast community succession offers valuable machine learningbased analysis techniques applicable microbial communities opening new avenues harnessing microbial communities