The Santorini Volcanic Complex as a Valuable Source of Enzymes for Bioenergy

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Marine microbial communities are an untapped reservoir of genetic and metabolic diversity and a valuable source for the discovery of new natural products of biotechnological interest. The conditions in these environments, i.e., high temperatures, low pH values and high concentration of heavy metals, often resemble harsh industrial settings. Thus, these environments may serve as pools of enzymes of enhanced catalytic properties that may provide benefits to biotechnology. Here, we screened 11 metagenomic libraries previously constructed from microbial mat samples covering the seafloor and the polymetallic chimneys of Kolumbo volcano as well as mat samples from Santorini caldera, to mine, in silico, genes associated with bioenergy applications.

PyData2020 video talk

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PyData2020 video talk

The volestipy library was presented at the Pydata Global 2020 online conference.

You may watch the presentation here.

Thanks a lot to the Pydata community for giving us the chance to talk about a great range of challenges in computer scienve and meet people from around the world sharing thoughts on such interesting topics!

Microbial interactions and how to infer them!

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Microbial interactions and how to infer them!

Just found out about the great paper of Aleksej Zelezniak et al. “Metabolic dependencies drive species co-occurrence in diverse microbial communities”.

As they authors claim “interspecies metabolic exchanges are widespread in natural communities, and such exchanges can provide group advantage under nutrient-poor conditions.””

Their results “highlight metabolic dependencies as a major driver of species co-occurrence”.

You may find this here.

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