| NGS | Next-Generation Sequencing |
| GSMM | Genome-Scale Metabolic Modeling |
| HMP | Human Microbiome Project |
| SCFAs | Short-Chain Fatty Acids |
| BCFAs | Branched Chain Fatty Acids |
| BCAAs | Branched Chain Amino Acids |
| BAs | Bile Acids |
| TLR | Toll-Like Receptor |
| APCs | Antigen Presenting Cells |
| WGS | Whole Genomes Shotgun metagenomics sequencing |
| GEMs | Genome-Scale Models |
| T1D | Type 1 Diabetes |
| RA | Rheumatoid Arthritis |
| T2D | Type 2 Diabetes |
| NAFLD | Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease |
| IDB | Bowel Disease |
| CDS | Protein Coding Sequences |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
| HUMAnN2 | HMP Unified Metabolic Analysis Network |
| MEGAN | MEtaGenome ANalyzer |
| MG-RAST | Metagenomics Rast |
| RAST | Rapid Annotation using Subsystem Technology |
| IMG/M | Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes |
| FBA | Flux Balance Analysis |
| CBA | Constraint-Based Approach |
| AGORA | Assembly of Gut Organisms through Reconstruction and Analysis |
| VMH | Virtual Metabolic Human |
| COBRA | COnstraint-Based Reconstruction and Analysis |
| RAVEN | Reconstruction, Analysis, and Visualization of Metabolic Networks |
| FVA | Flux Variability Analysis |
| SP | Shadow Price |
| UDCA | Ursodeoxycholate |
| RUTFs | Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Foods |
| EHMN | Edinburgh Human Metabolic Network |
| HMR | Human Metabolic Reaction |
| sIECs | small Intestinal Epithelial Cells |
| WBM | Whole-Body Metabolism |
| GF | Germ-Free |
| CONV-R | Conventionally Raised |