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Bioinformatics bolster a renaissance

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Biosynthetic gene clusters encode the enzymatic pathways to make secondary metabolites, molecules of great interest for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Access to an increasing number of microbial genomes, coupled with efficient bioinformatic tools, is creating new momentum in secondary metabolite research.

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Figure 1: Sequencing data as a renaissance in secondary metabolite research.

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  1. Ségolène Caboche is at Transcriptomics and Applied Genomics CIIL–Institut Pasteur de Lille, FRE 3642 Molecular and Cellular Medecine, CNRS and Université Lille Nord de France, Lille, France.,

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Caboche, S. Bioinformatics bolster a renaissance. Nat Chem Biol 10, 798–800 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchembio.1634

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