Day: March 6, 2024

Improving the Rediscovery of Biosynthetic Gene Clusters

Allison Guitor spoke at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2019 on “Harnessing long-read sequencing for antibiotic discovery.” Guitor is from McMaster University in Canada. They noted that antibiotic resistance is on the rise, and there are multidrug-resistant infections. One of the challenges is that bacteria have membranes and mechanisms to remove antibiotics. Guitor shared a timeline […]
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