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… 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 …

… must clearly demonstrate relevance and translatability to freshwater, coastal, or terrestrial systems. …

… capabilities support researchers exploring how to convert sequence into functional assessments. This is done by … BOOST provides a suite of tools to automate sequence design for assembly by Gibson, Yeast recombination …

… is like, what’s your origin story in natural products? Why are you doing this? JACLYN WINTER: I’ll kind of go back … that I never anticipated starting– that’s not why I came to the University of Utah– is looking at the … have an E. coli strain that we’ve been working on that we sequenced the genome. And it has 17 resistant genes on a …

… 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 … this and that. They’re doing all this 16S and I said, “Why don’t you just include the ITS too? It’s so easy to add …

… 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 …

… 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 … had to scale also by orders of magnitude. And that’s why Satria figured out some new clever tricks to make an …

… Program aims to generate large datasets to explore sequence-function relationships, advancing the discovery of … Science Group supports researchers exploring how to convert sequence into functional assessments. The team has a … of fungi. Mycocosm enables users to navigate across sequenced fungal genomes, and to conduct comparative and …

… our User Program’s Community Science Program, the JGI sequenced and characterized 270 genomes of the Clostridium … To meet these needs, the JGI deploys state-of-the-art sequencers and platforms dedicated to DNA synthesis, …

… 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, … And that’s what I really wanted to do. And that’s why I came back to academia. And I set that up. And we …

… 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 … favorite examples of a secondary metabolite producer, and why they produce those metabolites? MARC: Well, I’m really …

… and their complex genomes are more difficult to sequence and assemble, in turn limiting the use of modern, genomic breeding in these crops. For diploid … sets of chromosomes to produce a monoploid reference sequence. For the highly polyploid sugarcane, an …