The Nagoya Protocol on ‘Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization (ABS)’ represented a deep transformation on the discovery and use of new enzymes from nature since 2014. In 2025, its expansion to include digital sequence information (DSI) as a genetic resource will undoubtedly impact academic and industrial microbiome and biocatalysis research, in which databases are often mined to find novel enzymes and biosynthetic pathways.
This workshop seeks to inform the microbiome and biocatalysis community about the recent agreements regarding ABS for DSI and promote a dialogue between academia, industry, administration, publishers, policymakers on 10 years of ABS for genetic resources and their expectations for the new paradigm regarding DSI. This activity is spearheaded by EU-funded projects on marine microbiomes, BlueTools and BlueRemediomics.
A detailed agenda will soon be published here together with the registration link.