Fig. 3

Discovery of biosynthetic gene clusters from surface-based metagenomics sampling. Plotting the density of organisms across the city shows many diverse sites from which new biology could be discovered red to purple from highest to lowest); plotted here is the Pseudomonas genus, and examples of three samples from the NYC PathoMap study: PAB009 (stairway railing), PAB03 (payphone), and PAB07 (sign). b Three predicted BGCs discovered in the corresponding samples shown in a. Interestingly, these three BGCs are predicted to encode known and novel small molecules of the thiopeptide/thiocillin class of antibiotics.