Identifying the Skunk Genes in Cannabis with Manny Maminakis

Manny Maminakis is the inventor and CEO of Cannamatrix INC, a cannabis bioinfomratics platform. Prior to Cannamatrix, Manny spent 12 years in the cannabis industry as an award winning cannabis cultivator and edible chef.

At CannMed 26, he presented a poster titled “Computational Identification of Volatile Sulfur Compound Synthase Homologs in Cannabis sativa Using Profile Hidden Markov Models”

During our conversation, we discuss:

What volatile sulfur compounds (VSCs) are and why they give certain cannabis strains their skunky, garlicky smell

How Manny’s path from cannabis cultivator and award-winning edible chef led him into bioinformatics at Canimatrix

Why the GMO (“garlic mushroom onion”) cultivar was chosen as the ideal candidate for studying VSCs

How hidden Markov models were used to find candidate VSC genes by comparing cannabis proteins to garlic, onion, and other sulfur-producing plants

And more!

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