Abstract:Therapeutic agents play an increasingly large role in our daily lives, and it is important to study the source of these powerful chemical compounds. Biosynthetic gene clusters found in a diverse set of organisms are capable of manufacturing structurally complex organic compounds in a systematic way, by expressing suites of a enzymes to build the natural products. There is a growing need for a centralized database to connect data for related genes, enzymes, and compounds. This information is currently stored in… Show more
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