Natural Prodcast guest Francisco Barona-Gomez suggests discussing natural products from bacteria-centric terms and not from a human-centric point of view. [Read More]
Continuing the Natural Prodcast series on genome mining, guest Nadine Ziemert from the University of Tübingen on the evolution of secondary metabolite pathways as viewed through metagenome studies, and what more JGI and others can do to enable progress in this area of natural products. [Read More]
In this Natural Prodcast podcast episode, Marnix Medema of Wageningen University and his collaborators have a fantastic set of software tools for exploring secondary metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs). [Read More]
In Genome Insider, Penn State researchers Mary Ann Bruns and Terry Bell are studying a microbial community that might be quietly improving the soil. [Read More]
In this Natural Prodcast episode, the basics of genome mining, including an analogy involving the California Gold Rush. Also covered: a new publication out of JGI in Nature Biotechnology. [Read More]
Researchers studying cyanobacteria in Yellowstone National Park encountered surprises, adopted new technologies, and made a few discoveries about the microbial mat denizens. [Read More]
A mini-episode looking at the efforts of Pankaj Trivedi, whose New Investigator proposal was recently approved through the JGI Community Science Program, to use microbiome science to help plants cope with drought conditions. [Read More]