{"id":41,"date":"2020-07-22T08:42:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T08:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/industry\/?page_id=41"},"modified":"2025-02-13T16:15:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T16:15:56","slug":"industry-collaborations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/industry\/industry-collaborations\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry collaborations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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<\/meta><\/meta>Collaboration is at the heart of how we work. <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

<\/meta>Our\u00a0research groups\u00a0collaborate with partners worldwide on a range of projects, publishing in prestigious peer-reviewed journals and <\/meta>producing innovative software databases and tools that are freely available to our users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our data resources run in partnership with organisations throughout the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our focus is on pre-competitive collaboration, with data and research outputs published and made freely available to the\u00a0research community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We do not normally carry out fee-for-service contract research for commercial organisations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of our research and collaboration agreements are prepared though\u00a0EMBLEM<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 the technology transfer partner of EMBL.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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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.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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To learn more about areas of interest, explore our research groups<\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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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.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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If you want to find out more about collaborating with EMBL-EBI or discuss ideas for a partnership, get in touch.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/article>\n\n\n\n

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Is your organisation already a member of our Industry Programme<\/a>? If so head over to our Members area<\/a> and look up your company’s contact on the Partner contacts page. They will also be able to help you learn more about us.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/article>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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

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

In parallel, the team at EMBL-EBI developed MGnify<\/a>, an open data resource containing millions of protein sequences from environmental samples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n