Marine Genomics
Genomes from the blue frontier — assembling and mining marine and microbial genomes for biodiversity and natural-product discovery.
What this area is.
Marine organisms encode an extraordinary, under-explored chemical and genetic diversity. We assemble de novo genomes of marine fungi and microbes and mine them for biosynthetic gene clusters behind novel natural products.
Comparative and phylogenomic analysis places these genomes in evolutionary context, while metagenomics profiles whole marine communities and their functional potential.
Tools & technologies
What we do.
Core methods we apply in marine genomics.
De novo assembly
Hybrid short/long-read assembly of novel marine genomes.
Secondary-metabolite mining
BGC detection for natural-product and drug discovery.
Comparative genomics
Orthology, synteny and gene-family evolution.
Phylogenomics
Placing organisms accurately on the tree of life.
Metagenomics
Community composition and function from environmental samples.
Functional annotation
Linking genes to pathways and chemistry.
From data to insight.
How a marine genomics project flows end to end.
Sampling
marine isolates
Sequencing
Illumina + Nanopore
Assembly
hybrid de novo
Annotation
genes · BGCs
Compare
phylogenomics
Discover
novel metabolites
Publication-grade figures.
Interactive, live-rendered visualisations used in marine genomics.
Where we go deep.
Halophilic & marine fungi
Genomes such as marine-derived Aspergillus and their metabolite potential.
Natural-product discovery
From biosynthetic clusters to candidate compounds.
Biodiversity & evolution
Comparative insight across marine lineages.
Questions we answer.
A few of the things people ask about marine genomics — and our short answers. Ask CGB-AI for more.
Why marine genomes?
Marine and halophilic organisms occupy extreme niches and encode unusual biosynthetic chemistry — a rich source of new natural products.
What are BGCs?
Biosynthetic gene clusters are co-located genes that together produce a secondary metabolite — the genomic signature of natural-product potential.
Publications in Marine Genomics.
Drawn from our full record of 173 papers, filtered to this area.
Start a marine genomics project.
Tell us the biological question and the data you have — we will map out an approach.