“…Spearheading this renewed interest is the application of genome mining techniques (Bachmann, et al, 2014) and focused efforts to develop new discovery platforms including heterologous expression (Bonet, et al, 2014; Yamanaka, et al, 2014), the activation of silent gene clusters (Seyedsayamdost, 2014), peptidogenomics (Kersten, et al, 2011), glycogenomics (Kersten, et al, 2013), and proteomics (Chen, et al, 2013), all of which have helped to realize this potential. While there have been efforts to automate the process of genome mining (Medema, et al, 2014; Mohimani, et al, 2014; Zhang, et al, 2014), there remain major gaps between the detection of BGCs in genome sequence data and the identification of the metabolites they produce (Jensen, et al, 2014).…”