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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 … ALISON: Hmm. It kind of – it’s kind of like I’m smelling bacterial perfume. I mean – but it’s purposeful so it’s some …

… is like, what’s your origin story in natural products? Why are you doing this? JACLYN WINTER: I’ll kind of go back … just 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 …

… 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 …

… 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: …

And at the time, it was really exciting when people would sequence [DNA]. The genome was– well, that hadn’t really … polyketide synthase and then P3. We still don’t know why 20 years later. JACKIE WINTER: It’s pretty amazing, … has to have a story. And it can be looking for drugs from marine organisms, in which case you get to go to exotic …

… been dominated for … well, as long as I can remember, by bacterial research.  So it was great to hear her passion and … out introns and dealing with, you know, weirdness in the sequence. You know, some clusters are not clustered…   … it so easily with fungi. So…   NANCY: Yeah, I don’t know why. For example, with that – actually there’s a good talk …

… 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 … then got funded to work for two years at the Max Planck for marine microbiology in Bremen, Germany. And I wanted to work …

… through the stories I told you about geosmin, which is a bacterial sacred metabolite, and ergot alkaloids come from … 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 …

… 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? … on plant natural products. Rich, rich in bacterial and marine stuff. So we need more people annotating. It will …

A deep dive into microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four ecologically distinct … of SAR324 cells and their gene expression, the team then sequenced community genomes and expressed gene transcripts … ecotypes because, historically, they have used the sequence of a “marker gene,” namely the 16S ribosomal RNA …

… comprising the largest public collection of plasmid sequences identified from genomes, SAGs, MAGs, metagenomes …

… 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 …