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sBGC-hm: an atlas of secondary metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters from the human gut microbiome

2023; Oxford University Press; Volume: 39; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/bioinformatics/btad131

1367-4811

Huixi Zou, Tianli Sun, Bangqun Jin, Shengqin Wang,

Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

Abstract Summary Microbial secondary metabolites exhibit potential medicinal value. A large number of secondary metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) in the human gut microbiome, which exhibit essential biological activity in microbe–microbe and microbe–host interactions, have not been adequately characterized, making it difficult to prioritize these BGCs for experimental characterization. Here, we present the sBGC-hm, an atlas of secondary metabolite BGCs allows researchers to explore the potential therapeutic benefits of these natural products. One of its key features is the ability to assist in optimizing the BGC structure by utilizing the gene co-occurrence matrix obtained from Human Microbiome Project data. Results are viewable online and can be downloaded as spreadsheets. Availability and implementation The database is openly available at https://www.wzubio.com/sbgc. The website is powered by Apache 2 server with PHP and MariaDB.