Once realized, researchers utilizing the MITE data standard will gain convenient access to a collection of experimentally verified reaction and substrate specificities of NP-acting tailoring enzymes/maturases. This information is currently scattered across scientific articles and other resources, which not only requires time-consuming literature research, but also represents an obstacle to any computational approach. By design, the MITE data standard is intended to be used both as a knowledge base and machine-readable resource. Researchers could either query the MITE repository manually for tailoring enzymes of interest, for example to better understand the biosynthesis of a NP. At the same time, the MITE repository could also be queried automatically by computational tools in bioinformatics analyses and be the basis of novel predictive algorithms to be included in NP genome mining tools such as antiSMASH .