Secondary metabolites are compounds not essential for an organism's development, but
provide significant ecological and physiological benefits. These compounds have …

Microorganisms have provided a rich source of therapeutically valuable natural products.
Recent advances in whole genome sequencing and bioinformatics have revealed immense …

Microorganisms produce a wide variety of secondary/specialized metabolites (SMs), the
majority of which are yet to be discovered. These natural products play multiple roles in …

In the search for novel drug candidates, diverse environmental microbiomes have been
surveyed for their secondary metabolite biosynthesis potential, yet little is known about the …

Linear waste management systems are unsustainable and contribute to environmental
degradation, economic inequity, and health disparities. Among the array of environmental …

Fructans are fructose-based polymers, defined as fructooligosaccharides (FOS), when they
possess a short chain. These molecules are highly appreciated in the food and …

Bacteria living in sediments play essential roles in marine ecosystems and deeper insights
into the ecology and biogeochemistry of these largely unexplored organisms can be …

Our understanding of the role of secondary metabolites in microbial communities is
challenged by intrinsic limitations of culturing bacteria under laboratory conditions and …

Background Permafrost microbiomes are of paramount importance for the biogeochemistry
of high latitude soils and while endemic biosynthetic domain sequences involved in …

Motivation As previously described, amplicon analysis of the bacterial 16S gene has several
limitations owing to fundamental characteristics of both the 16S gene and technological …