MIBiG 3.0: a community-driven effort to annotate experimentally validated biosynthetic gene clusters

BR Terlouw, K Blin, JC Navarro-Munoz… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
With an ever-increasing amount of (meta) genomic data being deposited in sequence
databases,(meta) genome mining for natural product biosynthetic pathways occupies a …

MIBiG 2.0: a repository for biosynthetic gene clusters of known function

SA Kautsar, K Blin, S Shaw… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Fueled by the explosion of (meta) genomic data, genome mining of specialized metabolites
has become a major technology for drug discovery and studying microbiome ecology. In …

IMG-ABC: a knowledge base to fuel discovery of biosynthetic gene clusters and novel secondary metabolites

M Hadjithomas, IMA Chen, K Chu, A Ratner… - MBio, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
In the discovery of secondary metabolites, analysis of sequence data is a promising
exploration path that remains largely underutilized due to the lack of computational platforms …

BiG-FAM: the biosynthetic gene cluster families database

SA Kautsar, K Blin, S Shaw, T Weber… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Computational analysis of biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) has revolutionized natural
product discovery by enabling the rapid investigation of secondary metabolic potential within …

IMG-ABC v. 5.0: an update to the IMG/Atlas of Biosynthetic Gene Clusters Knowledgebase

K Palaniappan, IMA Chen, K Chu, A Ratner… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Microbial secondary metabolism is a reservoir of bioactive compounds of immense
biotechnological and biomedical potential. The biosynthetic machinery responsible for the …

A computational framework to explore large-scale biosynthetic diversity

JC Navarro-Muñoz, N Selem-Mojica… - Nature chemical …, 2020 - nature.com
Genome mining has become a key technology to exploit natural product diversity. Although
initially performed on a single-genome basis, the process is now being scaled up to mine …

plantiSMASH: automated identification, annotation and expression analysis of plant biosynthetic gene clusters

SA Kautsar, HG Suarez Duran, K Blin… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Plant specialized metabolites are chemically highly diverse, play key roles in host–microbe
interactions, have important nutritional value in crops and are frequently applied as …

BiG-SLiCE: A highly scalable tool maps the diversity of 1.2 million biosynthetic gene clusters

SA Kautsar, JJJ van der Hooft, D de Ridder… - …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Background Genome mining for biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) has become an integral
part of natural product discovery. The> 200,000 microbial genomes now publicly available …

IMG-ABC: new features for bacterial secondary metabolism analysis and targeted biosynthetic gene cluster discovery in thousands of microbial genomes

M Hadjithomas, IMA Chen, K Chu, J Huang… - Nucleic Acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Secondary metabolites produced by microbes have diverse biological functions, which
makes them a great potential source of biotechnologically relevant compounds with …

[HTML][HTML] CAGECAT: The CompArative GEne Cluster Analysis Toolbox for rapid search and visualisation of homologous gene clusters

M van den Belt, C Gilchrist, TJ Booth, YH Chooi… - BMC …, 2023 - Springer
Background Co-localized sets of genes that encode specialized functions are common
across microbial genomes and occur in genomes of larger eukaryotes as well. Important …