Dear all, the next seminar will take place on Wednesday, please see the details below. We look forward to seeing you all! Title:  Computational Analyses and Functional Annotations of Non-Model Bacteria Speaker:  Karel Sedlář Date and time: Wednesday 11/12/2024 - 17:20 Location: MFF UK, Malostranské nám. 25, lecture hall S3 (3rd floor) https://bioinformatics.cuni.cz/seminar/ Best wishes, Petr Danecek ------------------------------- *Karel Sedlář* */Computational Analyses and Functional Annotations of Non-Model Bacteria/* Bacteria are omnipresent organisms of unimaginable diversity. Non-model ones hide tremendous biosynthetic potential for white biotechnology, i.e., a technology that uses living cells to synthesize the value-added chemicals. Bioinformatics analyses of non-model organisms are specific because many computational tools require the use of datasets that are unavailable for non-conventional bacteria due to non-existing microbiological kits to perform desired experiments or simply due to missing knowledge of required input data. This lecture brings the author’s personal experience with overcoming these obstacles by using unique combinations of computational tools and techniques in order to maximize information gains from analyses of novel genomes of non-model bacteria.