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… in their natural environments. This work encompasses bacteria, archaea, and micro-eukaryoes, along with their … comprising the largest public collection of plasmid sequences identified from genomes, SAGs, MAGs, metagenomes …

… about several different pieces of her work, including bacterial quorum sensing and its effects on regulation of … The genes are pretty much 100% identical. We don't know why one is expressed over the other. As far as whether we're … usually serve as dimers, and then they will bind to certain sequences of DNA. And when they bind to those certain …

… 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 …

… 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: …

… colleagues. Aaron is doing some cool stuff with cool bacteria that I’m fascinated to learn more about. He works … 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. …

… about the basics of genome mining, which is using DNA sequence to identify and interpret biosynthetic, secondary … on synthetic biology of engineering gene expression in bacteria – however, the professor was actually quite … biological perspective, like what was this bacterium, and why did your group want to study it? Marnix Medema: You mean …

… 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 … So, one of those is Acinetibacter . This is a genus of bacteria that’s really popped up at funding agencies and the …

… 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 … Initially, my group really focused on marine actinobacteria. Then we moved into marine proteobacteria. Not a …

… in Nature and Medicine.” It’s obviously focused more on the bacterial side of the field, and it’s a little hard to find … 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 …