02. The Mechanistic Layer
Flux Balance Analysis (FBA)
While early attempts at gut modeling used statistical correlations, we use physics. Leveraging high performace parellel liniar optimisation, we run in silico simulations of ecological dynamics. We apply thermodynamic constraints to solve for metabolic fluxes. For instance if a strain’s predicted growth rate is < 10-3 h-1 in your specific gut environment, it is rejected. We don't guess if it will grow; we calculate it.