MIDDAS-M: motif-independent de novo detection of secondary metabolite gene clusters through the integration of genome sequencing and transcriptome data.

Many bioactive natural products are produced as "secondary metabolites" by plants, bacteria, and fungi. During the middle of the 20th century, several secondary metabolites from fungi revolutionized the pharmaceutical industry, for example, penicillin, lovastatin, and cyclosporine. They ar...

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Main Authors: Myco Umemura, Hideaki Koike, Nozomi Nagano, Tomoko Ishii, Jin Kawano, Noriko Yamane, Ikuko Kozone, Katsuhisa Horimoto, Kazuo Shin-ya, Kiyoshi Asai, Jiujiang Yu, Joan W Bennett, Masayuki Machida
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3877130?pdf=render