New solutions for antibiotic discovery: Prioritizing microbial biosynthetic space using ecology and machine learning

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Marnix H. Medema,

Affiliations Bioinformatics Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Institute of Biology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Gilles P. van Wezel

Affiliation Institute of Biology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0341-1561

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About the Authors

Marnix H. Medema: Affiliations Bioinformatics Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Institute of Biology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
Gilles P. van Wezel: Affiliation Institute of Biology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0341-1561

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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