Collaborations
The Superfamily/Genome and Computation Cores are developing computational tools that will be broadly applicable to enzyme function assignment. The EFI will distribute these intellectual developments and infrastructure as they are developed, eventually via web-based portals. To the extent permitted by resources, these Cores will also undertake a limited number of collaborations with the scientific community for interrogation of mechanistically diverse superfamilies, including sequence/superfamily analyses by the Superfamily/Genome Core and homology modeling and in silico docking of ligand libraries by the Computation Cores. Potential collaborations will be considered by members of the Steering Committee, weighing both feasibility and complementarity to ongoing efforts of the EFI.
The resources of the EFI will not allow community access to the capacity‑limited, experiment‑based Protein, Structure, and Microbiology Cores. Focused libraries of substrates prepared by the Bridging Projects will be made available to the scientific community as supplies permit. If/when these are exhausted, the procedures and clones for the necessary preparative enzymes will be provided by the appropriate Bridging Project via the EFI website and the PSI‑Materials Repository, respectively.
We are currently gauging community interest in collaborations with the EFI. If you would like to propose a collaboration for consideration with the Superfamily/Genome and/or Computation Core please fill out and submit this form.
