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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 …

… 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 …

… 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 … – how bacteria or other organisms communicate and how and why secondary metabolites are being produced in the … live in the root nodules of plants. And these guys were sequenced, and you can see that different Frankia have …

… 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 …

… 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 … biology perspective, like if you have a cluster of genes, why can’t you just engineer you know, a promoter or an …

… 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 …

… 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 biodesign, single-cell …

… 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 …

… 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 … are capable of making those strange ring systems. JACKIE: Why? Is it just because of ring strain or is it-- I guess, …