plantiSMASH 2.0: improvements to detection, annotation, and prioritization of plant biosynthetic gene clusters

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Plants produce bioactive compounds as part of their specialized metabolism, with applications in medicine, agriculture, and nutrition. The biosynthesis of a growing number of these specialized metabolites has been found to be encoded in biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs), creating increasing demand for genome mining tools to automate their detection. plantiSMASH enables the identification of putative plant BGCs through a rule-based approach, available via both command-line and web interfaces. Here, we present plantiSMASH 2.0 ( https://plantismash.bioinformatics.nl/ ), a major update that expands and improves the original framework with revised and additional BGC detection rules (now supporting 12 BGC types), substrate prediction for selected enzyme families, and regulatory analysis through transcription factor binding site detection. The updated plantiSMASH 2.0 database includes 30,423 putative BGCs across 430 genomes. Together, these improvements make plantiSMASH 2.0 a powerful and comprehensive platform for the detection and characterization of plant biosynthetic pathways, supporting and accelerating research in plant specialized metabolism and plant natural product discovery.
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  • Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (VI.Vidi.213.183)
  • Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/X01097X/1)
  • Wellcome Trust (#227375/Z/23/Z)
  • Novo Nordisk Fonden (Novozymes Prize 2023)
  • Israel Science Foundation (315/24)

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