%0 Journal Article %T Microbial Consortium Design Benefits from Metabolic Modeling %J - %D 2019 %R https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tibtech.2018.11.004 %X Consortia outperform single microorganisms at multiple tasks. However, consortium design is challenging and successful application examples are rare. A major challenge is the selection of consortium members such that performance is optimized. In a recent publication, metabolic modeling has been successfully applied to aid consortium design %U https://www.cell.com/trends/biotechnology/fulltext/S0167-7799(18)30314-7