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… more than 50,000 genomes that we derived from meta-genome sequences. As always, you’ll find transcripts and show notes … for us– what organisms people use for genome mining, why it’s called genome mining, how the biosynthetic gene … The GEM catalog expands the bacterial and archaeal orders as seen on the phylogenetic tree, with new …

… from fungi, and Taxol from plants. Plants, fungi, bacteria, archaea, they all have secondary metabolism. They all have … 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 … live in the root nodules of plants. And these guys were sequenced, and you can see that different Frankia have …

… there are any kind of dated references to the news, that’s why. But it was a really fun conversation. And I think … metabolites evolve– who makes them, how do they spread, why do they spread in a certain way from one bacteria to … it would work, but we actually found fosmids. And we sequenced the whole fosmid at the time with Sanger …

… 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 … Germany were working on a very similar project like six months after I started. Another PhD student, Kai Blin, …

… … For sequencing projects, once work is under way, raw sequence data is released to NCBI’s Sequence Read Archive on a regular basis, in accordance with …

… 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 … it was 2012 when she started this at Yale, and she only had six students sign up. She didn’t know if it was going to go …

… enzymes are, right? ALISON NARAYAN: Yes, and so that’s why I don’t like that sentence. I think that sometimes, we … association that might help? Like, if you have an unknown sequence or new flavin monooxygenases, you could say, oh … DAN UDWARY: That’s weird. I hadn’t heard that before. Why is that? Why would that be the case? ALISON NARAYAN: …

… of their synthases so that we can start to use the DNA sequence to predict or just understand better the language … your interest in getting into natural products. DAN: Why are you here at SIMB? AARON PURI: Yeah. Thanks Jackie. … the one in a paper from the– I think when I was like six or eight or something like that who coined this term …

… then genomics happened. Dan: Yeah, I did my first genome sequence with you. Brad: That’s right,  Dan: JGI did it in … working with you, Dan, on this one, and we said, “Well, why don’t we have you know, the bioinformaticians go against … get made fun of by my now-wife, because she was wondering why it is that we needed to produce more toxins in the lab …

… on the discovery and characterization of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. We use multi-omics (metagenomics, …

… least, talk to us, first about my definitions of things and why I am wrong, and also talk about some of the great … think the terms we should be using for what we do are, and why there and why it’s important to make those distinctions. … to approach it is more related to what JGI does, which is sequence genomes. And we just published last year in the …

… new antibiotics added to the market. And we get to say that six of those are based on natural product structures.  DAN: … 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 …