Naturally Speaking: Finding Nature's Treasure Trove with the Global Ocean Sampling Expedition; and Natural Products Chemistry

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4.2 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2007

⏱️ 24 minutes

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In this episode, the J. Craig Venter Institute's senior computational biologist Douglas Rusch talks about the Global Ocean Sampling Expedition's genomic treasure hunt and the first batch of research results that just came out. We'll also talk about an analysis of pharmaceutical agents in the Journal of Natural Products that showed that the majority of approved agents in the last quarter century are still derived from natural products. Plus we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Websites mentioned include http://www.plos.org; http://collections.plos.org/plosbiology/gos-2007.php; http://pubs.acs.org/journals/jnprdf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.7	Welcome to Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American for the seven days starting March 21st. I'm Steve
0:38.1	Mercky. This week on the podcast, we'll go on an ocean voyage in search of buried treasure.
0:43.5	Buried in the genomes of all the gazillions of tiny organisms that live in the ocean,
0:48.3	we'll talk to Douglas Rush, the first author on the lead publication of the first group of
0:53.3	papers to come out of the
0:54.4	global ocean sampling expedition a large genetic treasure hunt we'll also talk
1:00.0	about another research paper that came out last week that kind of dovetails
1:03.6	nicely with the expedition material that's a report about the continued
1:07.7	importance of natural products for medicine plus we'll test your knowledge about some other recent science in the news.
1:13.5	First up, Douglas Rush, he's a senior computational biologist at the J. Craig Venter Institute,
1:18.9	the folks behind the global ocean sampling expedition, and I talked to him at his office in Rockville, Maryland.
1:25.3	Hi, Dr. Rush. How are you today?
1:27.3	I'm doing quite well. How are you, Steve? I'm fine, thanks. Good to Dr. Rush. How are you today? I'm doing quite well.
1:28.3	How are you, Steve?
1:29.0	I'm fine, thanks.
1:29.9	Good to talk to you.
1:31.1	Tell us all about the Sorcerer 2 Global Ocean Sampling Expedition.
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