Journal
MARINE DRUGS
Volume 15, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/md15060165
Keywords
genome mining; genome sequencing; metagenomics; binning; biosynthesis; bioinformatics; biosynthetic gene clusters; secondary metabolism
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- American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education Predoctoral Fellowship
- NIH [GM008505]
- NIAID [R21AI121704]
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Genome mining has become an increasingly powerful, scalable, and economically accessible tool for the study of natural product biosynthesis and drug discovery. However, there remain important biological and practical problems that can complicate or obscure biosynthetic analysis in genomic and metagenomic sequencing projects. Here, we focus on limitations of available technology as well as computational and experimental strategies to overcome them. We review the unique challenges and approaches in the study of symbiotic and uncultured systems, as well as those associated with biosynthetic gene cluster (BGC) assembly and product prediction. Finally, to explore sequencing parameters that affect the recovery and contiguity of large and repetitive BGCs assembled de novo, we simulate Illumina and PacBio sequencing of the Salinispora tropica genome focusing on assembly of the salinilactam (slm) BGC.
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