Astral really is creating top notch tools!

Inspired by discussions with @adafede.bsky.social and @skepteis.bsky.social :)

@skepteis.bsky.social

Hopefully this will be a wakeup call for journals which still accept images of gels or western blots as experimental evidence 🙃

Typo: it should be mite.bioinformatics.nl

Again, thanks a lot to all the contributors and especially @adafede.bsky.social @skepteis.bsky.social @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social @marnixmedema.bsky.social @catarinacarolina.bsky.social @jorgenavarro.bsky.social @nadineziemert.bsky.social @tilmweber.bsky.social @kblin.bsky.social

MITE is created by the natural products community, for the community! If you are interested in learning more about using MITE or even contributing to it, make sure to sign up for the mailing list! We will organize a first training session for MITE soon-ish (mid-October)! forms.gle/9NUe2aovynTV...

MITE can be queried in various ways to get information about tailoring enzymes, their pathways, and associated organisms. Its already being used by @antismash.bsky.social and MIBiG, and we foresee its use in machine learning applications for enzyme reaction prediction and classification!

The MITE database is a curated, crowd-sourced, and expert-reviewed database of tailoring enzymes, capturing catalytic reactions, substrate specificities, genomic context, and cross-references to existing resources (e.g. MIBiG, Rhea, UniProt).

Super interesting perspective!

This work would have not been possible without the contributions of our many data submitters, reviewers, and collaborators, especially @adafede.bsky.social , @skepteis.bsky.social , @kblin.bsky.social , @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social, @marnixmedema.bsky.social! Many thanks! (8/8)

If you want to get involved, make sure to contact us, either via email, or using our Discussion forum at the MITE Standard GitHub Organization (github.com/mite-standard)! (7/8)