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The antiSMASH database version 4: additional genomes and BGCs, new sequence-based searches and more

Kai Blin, Simon J. Shaw, Marnix H. Medema, Tilmann Weber

2023Nucleic Acids Research125 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

Many microorganisms produce natural products that are frequently used in the development of medicines and crop protection agents. Genome mining has evolved into a prominent method to access this potential. antiSMASH is the most popular tool for this task. Here we present version 4 of the antiSMASH database, providing biosynthetic gene clusters detected by antiSMASH 7.1 in publicly available, dereplicated, high-quality microbial genomes via an interactive graphical user interface. In version 4, the database contains 231 534 high quality BGC regions from 592 archaeal, 35 726 bacterial and 236 fungal genomes and is available at https://antismash-db.secondarymetabolites.org/.

Topics & Concepts

BiologyGenomeBacterial genome sizeComputational biologyDatabaseGeneGeneticsComputer scienceMicrobial Natural Products and BiosynthesisGenomics and Phylogenetic StudiesFungal Biology and Applications