title: Metagenomics: an inexhaustible access to nature's diversity.
abstract: The chemical industry has an enormous need for innovation. To save resources, energy and time, currently more and more established chemical processes are being switched to biotechnological routes. This requires white biotechnology to discover and develop novel enzymes, biocatalysts and applications. Due to a limitation in the cultivability of microbes living in certain habitats, technologies have to be established which give access to the enormous resource of uncultivated microbial diversity. Metagenomics promises to provide new and diverse enzymes and biocatalysts as well as bioactive molecules and has the potential to make industrial biotechnology an economic, sustainable success.
authors.affiliation: BRAIN Aktiengesellschaft, Zwingenberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Langer
authors.forename: Esther M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Gabor
authors.forename: Klaus
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Liebeton
authors.forename: Guido
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Meurer
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Niehaus
authors.forename: Renate
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schulze
authors.forename: Jürgen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Eck
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lorenz
mesh_terms: D044822:Biodiversity; D001709:Biotechnology / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends*; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends*; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D007221:Industry / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends*