Diversity and taxonomic distribution of bacterial biosynthetic gene clusters predicted to produce compounds with therapeutically relevant bioactivities

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Bacteria have long been a source of natural products with diverse bioactivities that have been developed into therapeutics to treat human disease. Historically, researchers have focused on a few taxa of bacteria, mainly Streptomyces and other actinomycetes. This strategy was initially highly successful and resulted in the golden era of antibiotic discovery. The golden era ended when the most common antibiotics...

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