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Chania Clare
dblp:425/4705
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
0000-0002-5788-7453ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Bioinformatics and computational biology · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bioinformatics and computational biology › microbiology
microbial ecology |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | MIMIC: a Python package for simulating, inferring, and predicting microbial community interactions and dynamics · Bioinform. 2025 |
Bioinformatics and computational biology › computational microbiology
microbiome analysis |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | MIMIC: a Python package for simulating, inferring, and predicting microbial community interactions and dynamics · Bioinform. 2025 |
Bioinformatics and computational biology
multi-omics data integration |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | MIMIC: a Python package for simulating, inferring, and predicting microbial community interactions and dynamics · Bioinform. 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
vector autoregression · 0.9machine learning · 0.9generalized lotka-volterra · 0.9gaussian process · 0.9bayesian inference · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | MIMIC: a Python package for simulating, inferring, and predicting microbial community interactions and dynamicsabstractSUMMARY: The study of microbial communities is vital for understanding their impact on environmental, health, and technological domains. The Modelling and Inference of MICrobiomes Project (MIMIC) introduces a Python package designed to advance the simulation, inference, and prediction of microbial community interactions and dynamics. Addressing the complex nature of microbial ecosystems, MIMIC integrates a suite of mathematical models, including previously used approaches such as Generalized Lotka-Volterra (gLV), Gaussian Processes (GP), and Vector Autoregression (VAR) plus newly developed models for integrating multi-omic data, to offer a versatile framework for analyzing microbial dynamics. By leveraging Bayesian inference and machine learning techniques, MIMIC provides the ability to infer the dynamics of microbial communities from empirical data, facilitating a deeper understanding of their complex biological processes, unveiling possible unknown ecological interactions, and enabling the design of microbial communities. Such insights could help to advance microbial ecology research, optimizing biotechnological applications, and contribute to environmental sustainability and public health strategies. MIMIC is designed for flexibility and ease of use, aiming to support researchers and practitioners in microbial ecology and microbiome research. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: MIMIC is freely available under the MIT License at https://github.com/ucl-cssb/MIMIC. It is implemented in Python (version 3.7 or higher) and is compatible with Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems. MIMIC depends on standard Python libraries including NumPy, SciPy, and PyMC. Comprehensive examples and tutorials (including the main text demonstrations) are provided as Jupyter notebooks in the examples/directory and at the MIMIC Docs website, along with detailed installation instructions and real-world data use cases. The software will remain freely available for at least two years following publication. A code snapshot for this publication is also available at Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15149003. Pedro Fontanarrosa, Chania Clare, Alex J. H. Fedorec, Chris P. Barnes |
Bioinform. | 2 |