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Wednesday, 15 October 2014

Google für Enzyme

Nahmen auf der Messe den Preis entgegen: Christin Gruber (l.) und Georg Steinkellner vom Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (Foto: acib)

Nahmen auf der Messe den Preis entgegen: Christin Gruber (l.) und Georg Steinkellner vom Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (Foto: acib)

Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology gewinnt bei der weltgrößten Pharma-Messe Preis für Enzym-Suchmaschine

Die Suchmaschine "Catalophor" durchforstet eine eigens erstellte Datenbank mit mehr als 100.000 Proteinen nach dem geeigneten Enzym für eine bestimmte Aufgabe. "Enzyme sind für die Pharmaindustrie extrem wertvoll, weil sie beispielsweise rasch und billig bestimmte Moleküle herstellen können", erklärt Georg Steinkellner vom Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology acib. Die Suche am Computer erspart unzählige Experimente. "Außerdem können wir so neue Enzymfunktionen und Reaktionswege entdecken", ergänzt Christian Gruber, der das System gemeinsam mit Steinkellner und Karl Gruber von der Universität Graz weiterentwickeln wird.

Die Suchmaschine wurde auch auf der weltgrößten Pharma- und chemiemesse PHI worldwide in Paris präsentiert und mit dem CPHI-Pharma-Award für die beste Innovation ausgezeichnet. Das preisgekrönte Verfahren wrude außerdem zum Patent eingereicht und im renommierten Fachmagazin Nature Communications veröffentlicht.

Das internationale Forschungszentrum acib, dessen Eigentümer die Universitäten Graz und Innsbruck, die TU Graz, die Universität für Bodenkultur sowie Joanneum Research sind, wurde 2010 gegründet und entwickelt umweltfreundlichere und ökonomischer Prozesse für die Industrie.

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