New solutions for antibiotic discovery: Prioritizing microbial biosynthetic space using ecology and machine learning
Marnix H. Medema, Gilles P. van Wezel
Abstract
With the explosive increase in genome sequence data, perhaps the major challenge in natural-product-based drug discovery is the identification of gene clusters most likely to specify new chemistry and bioactivities. We discuss the challenges and state-of-the-art of antibiotic discovery based on ecological principles, genome mining and artificial intelligence.
Topics & Concepts
BiologyDrug discoveryIdentification (biology)Computational biologyNatural productGenomeMetagenomicsEcologyGeneEvolutionary biologyBioinformaticsGeneticsBiochemistryMicrobial Natural Products and BiosynthesisGenomics and Phylogenetic Studiesvaccines and immunoinformatics approaches