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Systems Biology of Smear Cheese Consortia

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Diversity, Dynamics and Functional Role of Actinomycetes on European Smear Ripened Cheeses

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Systems biology approaches in smear cheeses will be challenging but will highlight gaps in knowledge as well as providing new ways to address problems and opportunities in cheese making. Advances in genomics, metagenomics and transcriptomics, driven by new sequencing technologies, and in modeling will push this agenda. Progress in these approaches in the lactic acid bacteria, with about 150 genomes currently completed or in progress, will provide both a template and a basis as to how the smear cheese consortium functions on the cheese matrix and adds to it. The targets for enhancing cheese exhibit just those characteristics of synergy and contingency which will benefit from a systems approach.

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    By 2013 there were 149 whole or draft genomes of more than 50 LAB species.

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Ward, A.C. (2015). Systems Biology of Smear Cheese Consortia. In: Bora, N., Dodd, C., Desmasures, N. (eds) Diversity, Dynamics and Functional Role of Actinomycetes on European Smear Ripened Cheeses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10464-5_8

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