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… and using engineered biosynthetic pathways and enzyme systems to do synthetic analoging of some really complex … a postdoc and went to industry to see what they had, what data they had. DAN UDWARY: And they had a lot of data for … an undergraduate and not succeeding and still using all the tools from mechanistic enzymology to natural product …

… to unpack experimentally. But there’s a couple of different systems where people have made strides in that area. Where I … and I’m really excited about it. Because now we have the tools through genomics, and metabolomics, to ask these … for a company. Personally, that was my first taste of big data if you want, maybe it’s medium data now. But at the …

… early stage drug discovery in general, and a possible data-driven future for plant natural products. Happy … get a DNA sequence first. And there are plenty of software tools to find natural product gene clusters, and even be … identifying their roles within these complex communication systems across kingdoms of life. ALISON TAKEMURA: OK. This …

… plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  recently described in  Nature … created by researchers under the direction of Microbiome Data Science Group Lead Nikos Kyrpides at the U.S. … for identifying viruses and plasmids. Until now, most other tools have focused on identifying only specific plasmids or …