Medema, Marnix HKottmann, RenzoYilmaz, PelinCummings, MatthewBiggins, John BBlin, Kaide Bruijn, IreneChooi, Yit HengClaesen, JanCoates, R CameronCruz-Morales, PabloDuddela, SrikanthDüsterhus, StephanieEdwards, Daniel JFewer, David PGarg, NehaGeiger, ChristophGomez-Escribano, Juan PabloGreule, AnjaHadjithomas, MichalisHaines, Anthony SHelfrich, Eric J NHillwig, Matthew LIshida, KeishiJones, Adam CJones, Carla SJungmann, KatrinKegler, CarstenKim, Hyun UkKötter, PeterKrug, DanielMasschelein, JoleenMelnik, Alexey VMantovani, Simone MMonroe, Emily AMoore, MarcusMoss, NathanNützmann, Hans-WilhelmPan, GuohuiPati, AmritaPetras, DanielReen, F JerryRosconi, FedericoRui, ZheTian, ZhenhuaTobias, Nicholas JTsunematsu, YutaWiemann, PhilippWyckoff, ElizabethYan, XiaohuiYim, GraceYu, FenganXie, YunchangAigle, BertrandApel, Alexander KBalibar, Carl JBalskus, EmilyBarona-Gómez, FranciscoBechthold, AndreasBode, Helge BBorriss, RainerBrady, Sean FBrakhage, Axel ACaffrey, PatrickCheng, Yi-QiangClardy, JonCox, Russell JDe Mot, RenéDonadio, StefanoDonia, Mohamed Svan der Donk, Wilfred ADorrestein, Pieter CDoyle, SeanDriessen, Arnold J MEhling-Schulz, MonikaEntian, Karl-DieterFischbach, Michael AGerwick, LenaGerwick, William HGross, HaraldGust, BertoltHertweck, ChristianHöfte, MonicaJensen, Susan EJu, JianhuaKatz, LeonardKaysser, LeonardKlassen, Jonathan LKeller, Nancy PKormanec, JanKuipers, Oscar PKuzuyama, TomohisaKyrpides, Nikos CKwon, Hyung-JinLautru, SylvieLavigne, RobLee, Chia YLinquan, BaiLiu, XinyuLiu, WenLuzhetskyy, AndriyMahmud, TaifoMast, YvonneMéndez, CarmenMetsä-Ketelä, MikkoMicklefield, JasonMitchell, Douglas AMoore, Bradley SMoreira, Leonilde MMüller, RolfNeilan, Brett ANett, MarkusNielsen, JensO, FergalOikawa, HideakiOsbourn, AnneOsburne, Marcia SOstash, BohdanPayne, Shelley MPernodet, Jean-LucPetricek, MiroslavPiel, JörnPloux, OlivierRaaijmakers, Jos MSalas, José ASchmitt, Esther KScott, BarrySeipke, Ryan FShen, BenSherman, DavidSivonen, KaarinaSmanski, Michael JSosio, MargheritaStegmann, EviSüssmuth, Roderich DTahlan, KapilThomas, Christopher MTang, YiTruman, Andrew WViaud, MurielWalton, Jonathan DWalsh, ChristopherWeber, Tilmannvan Wezel, Gilles PWilkinson, BarrieWilley, Joanne MWohlleben, WolfgangWright, Gerard DZiemert, NadineZhang, ChangshengZotchev, Sergey BBreitling, RainerTakano, ErikoGlöckner, Frank Oliver2017-07-142015Medema, Marnix H, Renzo Kottmann, Pelin Yilmaz, Matthew Cummings, John B Biggins, Kai Blin, Irene de Bruijn, et al. 2015. “Minimum Information About a Biosynthetic Gene Cluster.” Nature Chemical Biology 11 (9) (August 18): 625–631. doi:10.1038/nchembio.1890.1552-4450http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33445938A wide variety of enzymatic pathways that produce specialized metabolites in bacteria, fungi and plants are known to be encoded in biosynthetic gene clusters. Information about these clusters, pathways and metabolites is currently dispersed throughout the literature, making it difficult to exploit. To facilitate consistent and systematic deposition and retrieval of data on biosynthetic gene clusters, we propose the Minimum Information about a Biosynthetic Gene cluster (MIBiG) data standard.en-USBiosynthesisNatural productsSequence annotationSynthetic biologyJournal Article2017-05-1120152017-07-1410.1038/nchembio.1890