Home Research People Publications Software Download Courses Photos Contact Elhanan Borenstein, Ph.D. NetCooperate NetCooperate is a software package for determining host-microbe and microbe-microbe cooperation and is available as an online tool (NetCooperate>Web) and as a Python module (NetCooperate>Python). » NetCooperate>Web   Determine the Cooperate set of a network online. » NetCooperate>Python   Download the Python module to add NetCooperate's functionality to your custom analysis programs. » NetCooperate Manual   Learn how to use NetCooperate in your analysis. Trying it out? Check out our example networks. Understanding the NetCooperate Analysis NetCooperate is a web tool and a software package for determining host-microbe and microbe-microbe cooperative potential. It specifically calculates two previously developed and validated metrics for species interaction: the Biosynthetic Support Score (BSS; see Borenstein and Feldman, 2009) which quantifies the ability of a host species to supply the nutritional requirements of a parasite or commensal species, and the Metabolic Complementarity Index (MCI; see Levy and Borenstein, 2013) which quantifies the complementarity of a pair of microbial organisms’ niches. NetCooperate takes as input a pair of metabolic networks, and returns the pairwise metrics as well a list of metabolic compounds complementary between the two species.