Metagrowth provides a functionality to help the design of new axenic culture media
for the following bacteria.
After choosing a bacterium, the users will be asked to
(i) select nutriments or physical conditions ("variables"),
(ii) define the ranges of the variables, and
(iii) define the number of samples ("states") within the ranges.
The Metagrowth outputs a list of states (e.g. concentrations) for each
selected nutriments or physical condistions.
Normally the number of the combination of the variables and states is very large
if one like to exhaustively examine the effects of the variables.
One way to effectively reduce the size of experimental protocol is the use
of a mathematical procedure called "incomplete factorial design".
One such method is developed and implemented in the SAmBA program
[Audic et al., 1997 (PMID: 9329089); SAmBA server].