PMID- 30166180 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20181102 LR - 20181102 IS - 1095-9998 (Electronic) IS - 0740-0020 (Linking) VI - 76 DP - 2018 Dec TI - Comparing design of experiments and optimal experimental design techniques for modelling the microbial growth rate under static environmental conditions. PG - 504-512 LID - S0740-0020(18)30004-2 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.fm.2018.05.010 [doi] AB - Building secondary models that describe the growth rate as a function of multiple environmental conditions is often very labour intensive and costly. As such, the current research aims to assist in decreasing the required experimental effort by studying the efficacy of both design of experiments (DOE) and optimal experimental designs (OED) techniques. This is the first research in predictive microbiology (i) to make a comparison of these techniques based on the (relative) model prediction uncertainty of the obtained models and (ii) to compare OED criteria for the design of experiments with static (instead of dynamic) environmental conditions. A comparison of the DOE techniques demonstrated that the inscribed central composite design and full factorial design were most suitable. Five conventional and two tailor made OED criteria were tested. The commonly used D-criterion performed best out of the conventional designs and almost equally well as the best of the dedicated criteria. Moreover, the modelling results of the D-criterion were less dependent on the experimental variability and differences in the microbial response than the two selected DOE techniques. Finally, it was proven that solving the optimisation of the D-criterion can be made more efficient by considering the sensitivities of the growth rate relative to its value as Jacobian matrix instead of the sensitivities of the cell density measurements. CI - Copyright (c) 2018. Published by Elsevier Ltd. FAU - Akkermans, Simen AU - Akkermans S AD - BioTeC, Chemical and Biochemical Process Technology and Control, Department of Chemical Engineering, KU Leuven, Ghent, Belgium; OPTEC, Optimization in Engineering Center-of-Excellence, KU Leuven, Belgium; CPMF(2), Flemish Cluster Predictive Microbiology in Foods, Belgium1. Electronic address: simen.akkermans@kuleuven.be. FAU - Nimmegeers, Philippe AU - Nimmegeers P AD - BioTeC, Chemical and Biochemical Process Technology and Control, Department of Chemical Engineering, KU Leuven, Ghent, Belgium; OPTEC, Optimization in Engineering Center-of-Excellence, KU Leuven, Belgium; CPMF(2), Flemish Cluster Predictive Microbiology in Foods, Belgium1. FAU - Van Impe, Jan F AU - Van Impe JF AD - BioTeC, Chemical and Biochemical Process Technology and Control, Department of Chemical Engineering, KU Leuven, Ghent, Belgium; OPTEC, Optimization in Engineering Center-of-Excellence, KU Leuven, Belgium; CPMF(2), Flemish Cluster Predictive Microbiology in Foods, Belgium1. Electronic address: jan.vanimpe@kuleuven.be. LA - eng PT - Comparative Study PT - Journal Article DEP - 20180607 PL - England TA - Food Microbiol JT - Food microbiology JID - 8601127 SB - IM MH - Bacteria/chemistry/*growth & development MH - Kinetics MH - Models, Biological MH - *Research Design OTO - NOTNLM OT - D-criterion OT - Experimental design OT - Model prediction uncertainty OT - Predictive microbiology OT - Secondary model EDAT- 2018/09/01 06:00 MHDA- 2018/11/06 06:00 CRDT- 2018/09/01 06:00 PHST- 2018/01/02 00:00 [received] PHST- 2018/05/24 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2018/05/24 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2018/09/01 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2018/09/01 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/11/06 06:00 [medline] AID - S0740-0020(18)30004-2 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.fm.2018.05.010 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Food Microbiol. 2018 Dec;76:504-512. doi: 10.1016/j.fm.2018.05.010. Epub 2018 Jun 7.