The Biosynthetic Gene Cluster Family (GCF) database is an online repository for "homologous" groups of biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) putatively encoding the production of similar specialized metabolites. By taking large-scale, global collections of BGCs identified from currently available genomes and MAGs as a data source, BiG-FAM provides an explorable "atlas" of microbial secondary metabolic diversity to browse and search biosynthetic diversity across taxa. BiG-FAM facilitates querying putative BGCs to rapidly find their position on the diversity map and gain a better understanding of their novelty or (probable) functions, based on relationships with other known and predicted BGCs from publicly available data.

This database version () is based on a GCF clustering of 1,225,071 BGCs taken from multiple publicly available sources (details). This large-scale analysis was performed using the BiG-SLiCE software (1.0.0) with an arbitrary clustering threshold (T=900.0), which resulted in the construction of 29,955 GCF models, each representing distinct protein domain and sequence features shared by the BGCs.

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