Blue Bio Database - Database of Fisheries, Aquaculture, Seafood Processing and Marine Biotechnology Projects

The available database comprises research projects in Fisheries, Aquaculture, Seafood Processing and Marine Biotechnology active in the time period 2003-2022.
BlueBio is an ERA-NET COFUND created to directly identify new and improve existing ways of bringing bio-based products and services to the market and find new ways of creating value from in the blue bioeconomy.

More information on the BlueBio project and participating funding organizations is available on the BlueBio website: www.bluebioeconomy.eu

Last Update: 2024/06/19

Acronym
Category
	Marine Biotechnology
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Instrument (FP6) Contact Type (FP7) Strand (Interreg)
Theme (FP7) Activity Area (FP6) Regional Area (Interreg) Action (COST)
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	ArcticZymes
	Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
	SINTEF Materials and Chemistry
	University of British Columbia
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Summary	Organisms in the marine environment represent a largely unexploited source of highly valuable biomolecules. Due to the development of sequencing technologies in the last few decades, we are now able to access a vast amount of sequence information of metagenomes of cultivable and non-cultivable marine organisms. Unfortunately, our abilities to link such sequence information with function lags completely behind. The conventional system to annotate protein functions, e.g., annotation based on BLAST homology search, is very poor and often provides false predictions, in particular for classes of proteins for which biochemical characterization data has not been accumulated. Consequently, it is virtually impossible to identify novel proteins and enzymes based on sequence based screenings, only. Therefore, the goals of MarBioTech are to develop innovative tools and technologies to advance function-based searches in combination with sequence-based searches and to deliver valuable biomolecules of marine origin. Together with the innovative technology advancement, a wide range of existing marine resources including microbiomes of marine algae, jelly fish, and marine fish farms, among others, will be exploited by combining innovative function-, sequence-based and in vitro screenings for the identification of novel active high-value marine biomolecules. The target molecules will include enzymes involved in marine plastic degradation (PET esterases), fluorescent proteins for molecular medicine, novel highly active RNA polymerases as well as DNA nucleases for metagenome mining and molecular biology and quorum quenching (QQ) proteins to prevent biofilm formation.
Keywords
	Algae
	Antibacterial
	Bioprospecting
	Bioremediation
	Fish
	Habitat enhancement
	Human health
	Jellyfish
	Marine enzymes
	Microbiome
	Protein
Marine Region
	NOT ASSOCIATED TO MARINE AREAS; Not associated to marine areas; Not associated to marine areas

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