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… 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 …

… 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 …

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 …

I request a culture/slant/DNA of an organism that has been sequenced at the JGI? … How do I check the current status of …

… 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 …

… does some really exciting work there. And I thought, well, why don’t we try to go to Alaska and see what we can find … with any kind of gene cluster identification, doing it with sequence alone you have to have some kind of a template to … between chemistry and sequence to get anywhere. Like that’s why I say the more you know, the more you know because it …

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 …

… in the analysis and publication of the claimed genome sequences. This opportunity, provided by the Department of … builds upon thousands of microbial genomes that have been sequenced by the JGI though not formally analyzed or … necessary to extract meaningful biological insights from sequence data, employing IMG data and tools for comparative …

… 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, …