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UDWARY: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s Natural Prodcast– a podcast about natural … This continues our little section on international genome miners, and today we have Francisco Barona-Goméz, or … off, rather than negatively get rid of the genes from their genome. FRANCISCO BARONA-GOMEZ: Exactly right. It, we feel, …

… … DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s “Natural Prodcast,” a podcast about the … And then genomics happened. Dan: Yeah, I did my first genome sequence with you. Brad: That’s right,  Dan: JGI did … actinomycete bacterium called Salinospora . This new genus was discovered by friends and colleagues at the …

And it actually was jumping onto the I ntegrated Microbial Genomes and Metagenomes, the IMG platform that JGI has that really got me … into maybe the “easiest” organism to grow within that same genus. And so that’s what we’re trying to do right now is …

… was really before– or kind of around about when the first genome sequencing was done. But natural products– marine … unprecedented in the terms biosynthetic gene clusters and genome size. And they’re so complex. There’s so much still … It’s just that they’re less studied than streptomyces, the genus, right? Dan Udwary: Right. Kate Duncan: And …

… … DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s “Natural Prodcast,” a podcast about the … in a minute – we work for the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, or JGI. JGI is a DOE Office of Science … Alison Takemura and I work here with you, Dan, at the Joint Genome Institute. And do you want to hear a little bit about …