Natural products from actinomycetes have historically provided humans with numerous antibiotics (i.e., streptomycin, gentamycin, and vancomycin), anticancer agents (doxorubicin, bleomycin, and ...
Meanwhile, at the turn of the millennium, actinomycete genetics had taken a quantum leap forward with the publication of the first two Streptomyces genome sequences: those of the academic model S ...