A scientific research project is a great way to bring together expertise from EMBL-EBI and industry to work on a common research question.

Collaborations typically range from one year sponsored projects, through to longer term projects involving post-doctoral researchers. In all cases research is conducted under the expert supervision of an EMBL-EBI Group Leader.

You may be interested in collaborating with one of our data resource teams. The project may involve: developing a new feature for our data resources, integrating new data sets, developing common data standards etc.

Biocatalysts, a biotechnology company that develop and manufacture speciality enzymes for a variety of industries, partnered with the EMBL-EBI Microbiome Informatics team. Innovate UK supported the collaboration, which resulted in complimentary informatics platforms to help researchers discover relevant enzymes more quickly and efficiently.

The partnership allowed Biocatalysts to develop MetXtra™: a proprietary software platform that allows their researchers to search multiple databases to better identify enzyme candidates.

In parallel, the team at EMBL-EBI developed MGnify, an open data resource containing millions of protein sequences from environmental samples.