Introduction | How to build a community | Building the properties database: | Building the interaction matrix: | Building the community: | Manual community building: | Community analysis (comana) | Parameter uncertainty | Correcting stoichiometry | Modifying the community structure | Calibrating the fluxes to a specific ecosystem | Using empirical measurements of mineralization | Using defined relationships | Contributions to carbon and nitrogen mineralization | Calculate inputs | Stability | Simulate the food web away from equilibrium | Decomposition constant | Decomposition experiments in silico | References