Mining terpene synthases
https://biotechnologyforbiofuels.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13068-022-02189-9
Terpenes are an industrially important and highly abundant class of natural products. This review discussed mining of soil microbial genomes for genes encoding known and novel terpenoid compounds.
Metagenomic analysis for new pectinases
https://biotechnologyforbiofuels.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13068-017-0885-y
This study looked a specific microbiome connected to apple compost to find new pectinolytic enzymes.
Repurposing CRISPRi for metagenomic mining
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-022-01563-0
This study in Nature Biotechnology describes a new CRISPR-interference method to rapidly mine metagenomic and genomic sequences. This journal is not available without subscription, but is available through many institutional libraries.
Metagenomic mining for natural products
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.20.427441v1.full
This article on a preprint server for biological studies describes a tool for rapid mining of microbial biosynthetic gene clusters.
Mining enzyme diversity
https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-31421-1_216-1
This review book chapter focuses on metagenomic mining for new enzyme diversity.
Microfluidics and metagenome mining
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/crispr.2022.0054
This paper describes a high-throughput, microfluidic method to enrich rare sequences in a metagenomic mixture.
Mining hidden biosynthetic potential
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-24133-5
This is a review article in an open-source journal, Nature Communications, focused on mining for secondary metabolites.
Long-read metagenomics of marine microbes
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.01501-23
Long-read sequencing is important for discovering biosynthetic gene clusters, which are often comprised of dozens of contiguous genes.
Hunting down enzymes
https://elifesciences.org/digests/70021/hunting-down-enzymes
This magazine style article describes tools for analysing genomes to find new enzymes that modify DNA.
MGnify database
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/metagenomics
MGnify is a database and platform that can be used to assemble, analyse and archive microbiome-derived nucleic acid sequences.
MGnify genomes
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022283623000724
This recent paper describes MGnify Genomes, an extension of the MGnify database. This resource includes the increasing availability of biome-specific metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs).
Metagenome submission guide
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/metagenome/
This page offers information for submitting metagenome project sequences to the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).