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… 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 … the action of the microbiome because if you sterilize the soil, the protective effect is gone. You can transplant the …

… 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 … is a chemical compound called geosmin that’s produced by soil bacteria that live all over the place. So that smell of …

… or online catalog, I guess. So we've also been able to get soils from Purdue campus itself and been able to actually … 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 …

… least, talk to us, first about my definitions of things and why I am wrong, and also talk about some of the great … think the terms we should be using for what we do are, and why there and why it’s important to make those distinctions. … to approach it is more related to what JGI does, which is sequence genomes. And we just published last year in the …

… and 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? …

… specialized bacterial enzymes. Honey bees rely on their gut microbiota to produce these enzymes to break down … is a division of labor by these bacterial groups. But why the strain variability? The authors think the reason may …

… 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 …