Fig. 2From: Interaction networks for identifying coupled molecular processes in microbial communitiesFormal representation of a microbial community. Starting with a microbial community M composed of individual species mi and the set of protein coding genes G observables become apparent on the individual gene level (O1), on the pathway level for each species (O2), and on the level of inter-species molecular processes finally generating a community observable O3. Integrative analysis aims at deriving a model on the level of individual genes gi explaining an emergent property O3 M Back to article page