Minimum Information about a Biosynthetic Gene cluster.

A wide variety of enzymatic pathways that produce specialized metabolites in bacteria, fungi and plants are known to be encoded in biosynthetic gene clusters. Information about these clusters, pathways and metabolites is currently dispersed throughout the literature, making it difficult to exploit. To facilitate consistent and systematic deposition and retrieval of data on biosynthetic gene clusters, we propose the Minimum Information about a Biosynthetic Gene cluster (MIBiG) data standard.

• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Nature Chemical Biology

• Publication date

  2015-08-18

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Chemistry

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1038/nchembio.1890PMID 26284661PMCID PMC5714517
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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