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…   The JGI’s Secondary Metabolites Program focuses on the exploration of secondary metabolites across bacteria, fungi, algae and plants. These molecules, which are not essential for fundamental growth, provide critical advantages to the … The Secondary Metabolites Program targets the vast and underexplored …

… research project are appropriately recognized and credited for their work, while also adhering to the authorship … that the data produced by the facility result in scientific publications. JGI users and collaborators have the right to produce manuscripts for publication and the responsibility for leading the efforts …

… analysis and interpretation is creating new opportunities for breakthrough discoveries and catalyzing a major … data science.  Research in the Kyrpides group focuses on Microbiome Data Science and analysis of Big Data. The … grand challenges in Biology, with a special focus on microbiome research.  These efforts include exploration of …

… genomics with metabolomics fuels the discovery  of novel metabolites, genes, and proteins. It also enables … biogeochemical processes, development of high performance plants and microbes, and understanding microbiome interactions. The  insights derived are crucial …

… of new molecules and pathways. The JGI Metabolomics Platform delivers rich metabolite profiles from diverse biological and environmental samples … details on the instrumentation we use and our methodology for metabolite analyses.  … Metabolite Analysis & Metabolomics Instrumentation …

… Plant microbiomes hold the amazing ability to influence plant … is the modulation of their bacterial host to colonize plant roots, as with Arabidopsis thaliana. Using a coupled … experimental characterization methods, in addition to bioinformatics tools to elucidate phage function in this …

… The SMAC is chartered by the Secondary Metabolites Program Head and report back to them. The … and scientific relevance and quality. The SMAC does not perform management functions nor do they direct the Program's …

… gene clusters. And also correlating these gene clusters to metabolites. So knowing, OK, which metabolites are actually … we, for example, are really interested in metagenomes and microbiomes and figuring out which gene clusters are … of a plant, so the bacteria living on and inside the roots are protecting the plants against pathogens. So …

… “Adopt a Genome” is an informal program for faculty to “claim” the JGI’s unpublished microbial … faculty will work with undergraduates in the analysis and publication of the claimed genome sequences. This … insights from sequence data, employing IMG data and tools for comparative analysis, visualization and interpretation …

… se, how do you see genome mining and looking for secondary metabolites in the genome as relevant to the JGI mission? … and how we do it here and maybe give an example of a recent publication. ALISON TAKEMURA: Awesome. Yeah, let’s dive in, … Nature Biotechnology, titled ‘A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes’ . (Citation: Nayfach S et al. A Genomic Catalog …