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… you maybe explain what’s going on with their biology and why they’re so important to natural products? ERIC:  Sure. … I’ve seen you give a few talks on that. Can you tell us why cone snails are so cool? ERIC:  So cone snails are … turns a peptide, for example, from a disordered sequence into an antibiotic that kills bacteria through a …

… does some really exciting work there. And I thought, well, why don’t we try to go to Alaska and see what we can find … advisor] Brad Moore – who we talked to in, what, episode five – that’s one of his things was for a long time and I … with any kind of gene cluster identification, doing it with sequence alone you have to have some kind of a template to …

… at genomes and seeing where the really hard things to sequence were, and wondering what those … what those were … functional was these secondary metabolite pathways. So why was that? What is it about secondary metabolite pathways … what my research focus has been. Maybe the last four or five years or so, this involves, you know, how biosynthetic …

… then genomics happened. Dan: Yeah, I did my first genome sequence with you. Brad: That’s right,  Dan: JGI did it in … that genome – it was a relatively small genome, about five and a half million base pairs. It was not linear, like … working with you, Dan, on this one, and we said, “Well, why don’t we have you know, the bioinformaticians go against …

… able to explore DNA sequencing and actually get to the DNA sequence – sequences for the genes that code for the … Something that’s you know …  ALISON: Central! DAN: That’s why they called it that! But for, maybe, people who are less … expecting to. So you might know of like three or four or five molecules that you maybe had found and ground from your …

… at JGI start with sequencing, but where else did those sequences go? Like, what are the other scientific tools we … that describe the work. In general. Scientific merit and why it’s important. The DOE mission is one of these … section. We want to be sure that the PIs can articulate why their work falls within one of these DOE mission areas. …

… is like, what’s your origin story in natural products? Why are you doing this? JACLYN WINTER: I’ll kind of go back … that I never anticipated starting– that’s not why I came to the University of Utah– is looking at the … have an E. coli strain that we’ve been working on that we sequenced the genome. And it has 17 resistant genes on a …

DAN: Alright, so I think we’ve covered a little bit about why they’re important. But one of the things I did want to … – how bacteria or other organisms communicate and how and why secondary metabolites are being produced in the … live in the root nodules of plants. And these guys were sequenced, and you can see that different Frankia have …

… about the basics of genome mining, which is using DNA sequence to identify and interpret biosynthetic, secondary … biological perspective, like what was this bacterium, and why did your group want to study it? Marnix Medema: You mean … is, where do you think your lab is going over the next say five or 10 years? Sounds like function is a big part of …

Duncan: Yeah. I love actinomycetes. Dan Udwary: Tell us why. I mean, I know, but I think– Alison Takemura: I want to … of almost finished characterizing them. We’ve got genome sequences, which are just incredible. We’ve looked at the … a time course. And you might have done the extraction at five days, seven days, 10 days. And suddenly, you’re then …

… capabilities support researchers exploring how to convert sequence into functional assessments. This is done by … design tool  … BOOST provides a suite of tools to automate sequence design for assembly by Gibson, Yeast recombination …

… resequencing, RNA sequencing and epigenomics. Expansion of sequence space:  The JGI generates reference genomes from … of microbial communities based on their metagenome sequence, in the context of reference isolate genomes …