Synthetic microbial communities

Highlights • Microbial interactions and system function are two ways to study communities.• Natural microbial communities are difficult to define and to study.• Synthetic microbial communities are comprehensible systems of reduced complexity.• Synthetic communities keep key features of natural ones and are amenable to modelling.• Synthetic microbial communities are gaining importance in biotechnology.

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