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… 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 … where this happened have a tendency to be susceptible to a fungal infection of rye grain – a specific fungus, Claviceps …

… where I was a graduate student. Aflatoxin, of course, is a fungal natural product which is a liver toxin when humans … you maybe explain what’s going on with their biology and why they’re so important to natural products? ERIC:  Sure. … turns a peptide, for example, from a disordered sequence into an antibiotic that kills bacteria through a …

… and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. We use multi-omics (metagenomics, … tool for generating synthetic sequencing data from genomic sequences … A predictive tool for microbial symbionts in environmental sequence data, including microbial phenotype along the …

… 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: …

… culture-disconnected. Like we’ll take some soil samples and sequence all the bugs out of that or whatever. And so I was … methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus . Can you share why finding treatments for these microbes is so important? … could be used to treat these highly resistant bacterial and fungal pathogens. And we’ve actually just wrapped up a year, …

… is like, what’s your origin story in natural products? Why are you doing this? JACLYN WINTER: I’ll kind of go back … not enough time and money. I mean, we have a huge marine fungal project in collaboration with Bill Fenical at … 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 … live in the root nodules of plants. And these guys were sequenced, and you can see that different Frankia have … of weird growths on livestock due to you know, bacterial or fungal infections. Yeah, okay. So he identified these things …

… other plant-associated fungi. Their analysis identified fungal gene families that help determine if these fungi act … partnerships. To learn more about these other plant-fungal relationships, an international team led by graduate … from natural Arabidopsis populations around Europe. The JGI sequenced and annotated 41 fungal isolates from the …

… capabilities and products . A minimum request of 1 Tb of sequence data is required to qualify for BERSS. For DNA … and personnel resources for genomic research and sequence-based science.  Projects include de novo generation …

… 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 …

… 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 … students, we obviously can't put any antibiotics or antifungals in there. So they get just a smattering. JACKIE: …