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 research and innovation on microbiomes and biocatalysis, in which databases are often mined to find novel enzymes and biosynthetic pathways but also to develop computational tools.
This workshop seeks to inform researchers on microbiome and biocatalysis about the recent agreements regarding ABS for DSI and features different academic and industrial stakeholders. The aim is to reflect on >10 years of ABS and on the expectations for the new ABS paradigm that includes DSI.
