Chemical biologists studying natural-product pathways encoded in genomes have unearthed new chemistry and insights into the evolution of biologically active metabolites.
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Walsh, C. Natural insights for chemical biologists. Nat Chem Biol 1, 122–124 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchembio0805-122
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