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… 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 …

… 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 … there you go. [laughs] ALISON TAKEMURA: All the more reason why it could have been inspired by Super Smash Brothers. DAN …

… 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: …

… learned a lot so much history from this conversation about why the ocean was basically unexplored until the 70s, and … about his move to microbiology, about drug discovery and why it’s so hard to succeed, and we talk about an ongoing … forward to seeing the data when it finally gets off the sequencers. The pandemic has obviously slowed JGI down a …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… the paradigm of how to discover natural products. So, why I’m very excited to be working with Dan, you, with the … develop enabling technologies. ie how to translate the ATGC sequence into discrete small molecules. So, Dan, I’m very … or you know, you’ve run into challenges that demonstrate why this is so important. BEN:  Yeah. So I wouldn’t call it …

… 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. …

… stories about natural products, so you can get a feel for why I think they’re so important, and we’ll start to explain … more about some of the background and sort of the reasons why we want to do this. And also to provide a little more … of the fun things that I hope that I can express today is why secondary metabolism is interesting and why it is that …

… 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 …

… 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 … bit about your perspective on that kind of technique and why it’s valuable to you? Kate Duncan: I think both genome …