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MariClus: Your One-Stop Platform for Information on Marine Natural Products, Their Gene Clusters and Producing Organisms.

Authors :
Hermans, Cedric
De Mol, Maarten Lieven
Mispelaere, Marieke
De Rop, Anne-Sofie
Rombaut, Jeltien
Nusayr, Tesneem
Creamer, Rebecca
De Maeseneire, Sofie L.
Soetaert, Wim K.
Hulpiau, Paco
Source :
Marine Drugs; Aug2023, Vol. 21 Issue 8, p449, 13p
Publication Year :
2023

Abstract

Background: The marine environment hosts the vast majority of living species and marine microbes that produce natural products with great potential in providing lead compounds for drug development. With over 70% of Earth's surface covered in water and the high interaction rate associated with liquid environments, this has resulted in many marine natural product discoveries. Our improved understanding of the biosynthesis of these molecules, encoded by gene clusters, along with increased genomic information will aid us in uncovering even more novel compounds. Results: We introduce MariClus (https://www.mariclus.com), an online user-friendly platform for mining and visualizing marine gene clusters. The first version contains information on clusters and the predicted molecules for over 500 marine-related prokaryotes. The user-friendly interface allows scientists to easily search by species, cluster type or molecule and visualize the information in table format or graphical representation. Conclusions: This new online portal simplifies the exploration and comparison of gene clusters in marine species for scientists and assists in characterizing the bioactive molecules they produce. MariClus integrates data from public sources, like GenBank, MIBiG and PubChem, with genome mining results from antiSMASH. This allows users to access and analyze various aspects of marine natural product biosynthesis and diversity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
16603397
Volume :
21
Issue :
8
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Marine Drugs
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
170736881
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3390/md21080449