Discovery of an Abundance of Biosynthetic Gene Clusters in Shark Bay Microbial Mats

Exploring novel bacterial terpene synthases

(2020) Gajendar Komati Reddy et al.   PLoS One

Between a Rock and a Soft Place: The Role of Viruses in Lithification of Modern Microbial Mats

(2020) Richard Allen White et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Bacterial Secondary Metabolite Biosynthetic Potential in Soil Varies with Phylum, Depth, and Vegetation Type

(2020) Allison M. Sharrar et al.   mBio

Bacteriocins and Bacteriophages: Therapeutic Weapons for Gastrointestinal Diseases?

(2019) Loris Lopetuso et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

Impacts of microbial assemblage and environmental conditions on the distribution of anatoxin-a producing cyanobacteria within a river network

(2019) Keith Bouma-Gregson et al.   ISME Journal

Interactive Tree Of Life (iTOL) v4: recent updates and new developments

(2019) Ivica Letunic et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Antimicrobial Peptides, Polymorphic Toxins, and Self-Nonself Recognition Systems in Archaea: an Untapped Armory for Intermicrobial Conflicts

(2019) Kira S. Makarova et al.   mBio

BiosyntheticSPAdes: reconstructing biosynthetic gene clusters from assembly graphs

(2019) Dmitry Meleshko et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Cyanobacterial Secondary Metabolite Scytonemin: A Potential Photoprotective and Pharmaceutical Compound

(2019) Jainendra Pathak et al.   Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India. Section B

In silico exploration of Red Sea Bacillus genomes for natural product biosynthetic gene clusters

(2018) Ghofran Othoum et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Microbial mat ecosystems: Structure types, functional diversity, and biotechnological application

(2018) Cristina M. Prieto-Barajas et al.   ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

Microbial Dark Matter Investigations: How Microbial Studies Transform Biological Knowledge and Empirically Sketch a Logic of Scientific Discovery

(2018) Guillaume Bernard et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Disentangling the drivers of functional complexity at the metagenomic level in Shark Bay microbial mat microbiomes

(2018) Hon Lun Wong et al.   ISME Journal

Novel soil bacteria possess diverse genes for secondary metabolite biosynthesis

(2018) Alexander Crits-Christoph et al.   NATURE

Assembly of 913 microbial genomes from metagenomic sequencing of the cow rumen

(2018) Robert D. Stewart et al.   Nature Communications

Recovering Genomics Clusters of Secondary Metabolites from Lakes Using Genome-Resolved Metagenomics

(2018) Rafael R. C. Cuadrat et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Viral Communities of Shark Bay Modern Stromatolites

(2018) Richard Allen White III et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Biosynthetic capacity, metabolic variety and unusual biology in the CPR and DPANN radiations

(2018) Cindy J. Castelle et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Bioinformatic, phylogenetic, and chemical analysis of the UV-absorbing compounds scytonemin and mycosporine-like amino acids from the microbial mat communities of Shark Bay, Australia

(2018) Paul M. D'Agostino et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Marine Sponges as Chloroflexi Hot Spots: Genomic Insights and High-Resolution Visualization of an Abundant and Diverse Symbiotic Clade

(2018) Kristina Bayer et al.   mSystems

Minimum information about a single amplified genome (MISAG) and a metagenome-assembled genome (MIMAG) of bacteria and archaea

(2017) Robert M Bowers et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

antiSMASH 4.0—improvements in chemistry prediction and gene cluster boundary identification

(2017) Kai Blin et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Assessing biosynthetic potential of agricultural groundwater through metagenomic sequencing: A diverse anammox community dominates nitrate-rich groundwater

(2017) William B. Ludington et al.   PLoS One

Dynamics of archaea at fine spatial scales in Shark Bay mat microbiomes

(2017) Hon Lun Wong et al.   Scientific Reports

Natural product discovery: past, present, and future

(2016) Leonard Katz et al.   JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY

Natural Products as Sources of New Drugs from 1981 to 2014

(2016) David J. Newman et al.   JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS

Bacterial Long-Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids: Their Biosynthetic Genes, Functions, and Practical Use

(2016) Kiyohito Yoshida et al.   Marine Drugs

Rapid emergence of life shown by discovery of 3,700-million-year-old microbial structures

(2016) Allen P. Nutman et al.   NATURE

Actinomycin D enhances killing of cancer cells by immunotoxin RG7787 through activation of the extrinsic pathway of apoptosis

(2016) Xiu Fen Liu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Metagenomic evidence for the presence of phototrophic Gemmatimonadetes bacteria in diverse environments

(2016) Yonghui Zeng et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Planctomycetes as Novel Source of Bioactive Molecules

(2016) Ana P. Graça et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Lokiarchaeon is hydrogen dependent

(2016) Filipa L. Sousa et al.   Nature Microbiology

Antibiotic drug discovery

(2016) Wolfgang Wohlleben et al.   Microbial Biotechnology

MEGAHIT: an ultra-fast single-node solution for large and complex metagenomics assembly via succinct de Bruijn graph

(2015) Dinghua Li et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

CheckM: assessing the quality of microbial genomes recovered from isolates, single cells, and metagenomes

(2015) Donovan H. Parks et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Minimum Information about a Biosynthetic Gene cluster

(2015) Marnix H Medema et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Niche differentiation of bacterial communities at a millimeter scale in Shark Bay microbial mats

(2015) Hon Lun Wong et al.   Scientific Reports

Global biogeographic sampling of bacterial secondary metabolism

(2015) Zachary Charlop-Powers et al.   eLife

MetaBAT, an efficient tool for accurately reconstructing single genomes from complex microbial communities

(2015) Dongwan D. Kang et al.   PeerJ

Prokka: rapid prokaryotic genome annotation

(2014) T. Seemann   BIOINFORMATICS

Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data

(2014) Anthony M. Bolger et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

IQ-TREE: A Fast and Effective Stochastic Algorithm for Estimating Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies

(2014) Lam-Tung Nguyen et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Chemical-biogeographic survey of secondary metabolism in soil

(2014) Z. Charlop-Powers et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Atlas of nonribosomal peptide and polyketide biosynthetic pathways reveals common occurrence of nonmodular enzymes

(2014) H. Wang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

PhyloSift: phylogenetic analysis of genomes and metagenomes

(2014) Aaron E. Darling et al.   PeerJ

Siderophores in environmental research: roles and applications

(2014) E. Ahmed et al.   Microbial Biotechnology

Steps towards the synthetic biology of polyketide biosynthesis

(2013) Matthew Cummings et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

The Natural Product Domain Seeker NaPDoS: A Phylogeny Based Bioinformatic Tool to Classify Secondary Metabolite Gene Diversity

(2012) Nadine Ziemert et al.   PLoS One

Bacteriocin Production: a Probiotic Trait?

(2011) Alleson Dobson et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The biosynthesis of cyanobacterial sunscreen scytonemin in intertidal microbial mat communities

(2011) Emily P. Balskus et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Yersiniabactin iron uptake: mechanisms and role in Yersinia pestis pathogenesis

(2011) Robert D. Perry et al.   MICROBES AND INFECTION

antiSMASH: rapid identification, annotation and analysis of secondary metabolite biosynthesis gene clusters in bacterial and fungal genome sequences

(2011) Marnix H. Medema et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Expansion of ribosomally produced natural products: a nitrile hydratase- and Nif11-related precursor family

(2010) Daniel H Haft et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

BMGE (Block Mapping and Gathering with Entropy): a new software for selection of phylogenetic informative regions from multiple sequence alignments

(2010) Alexis Criscuolo et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows-Wheeler transform

(2009) H. Li et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic diversity of smooth and pustular microbial mat communities in the hypersaline lagoon of Shark Bay

(2009) M. A. ALLEN et al.   Geobiology

Modern analogues and the early history of microbial life

(2009) Brendan P. Burns et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

PKS and NRPS gene clusters from microbial symbiont cells of marine sponges by whole genome amplification

(2009) Alexander Siegl et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Haloferax elongans sp. nov. and Haloferax mucosum sp. nov., isolated from microbial mats from Hamelin Pool, Shark Bay, Australia

(2008) M. A. Allen et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY