The Road from DNA to Metabolomics Using a Comprehensive Strategy for the Discovery of New Marine Microbial Metabolites
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (16 October 2022) | Viewed by 7094
Special Issue Editor
Interests: biosynthesis; microbial; natural product biodiscovery; gene clusters; multi-drug resistant pathogens
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Dear Colleagues,
Microbial natural products are a potential source of new drugs, leading to the protection of human and animal health against various pathogens. Therefore, the identification of strategies to detect new secondary metabolites is crucial to finding new drug leads. Advances in full-genome sequencing, transcriptomics and proteomics can provide a valuable tool to determine the metabolomic capability of these microbes (fungi and bacteria). In this Special Issue, we aim to incorporate valuable bioinformatics and computational tools through a step-by-step process to investigate marine microbial gene clusters, targeting the discovery of new marine drug leads.
Dr. Zeinab Khalil
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- microbial natural products
- new drugs
- genome sequencing
- transcriptomics
- proteomics
- fungi
- bacteria
- bioinformatics
- computational tools
- gene clusters
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