Formation | 2010 |
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Purpose | Develop and disseminate a robust strategy to determine enzyme function |
Headquarters | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
Principal Investigator | John A. Gerlt, Ph.D. |
Budget | Five-year NIGMS Glue Grant |
Website | www.enzymefunction.org |
The Enzyme Function Initiative (EFI) is a large-scale collaborative project aiming to develop and disseminate a robust strategy to determine enzyme function through an integrated sequence–structure-based approach.[1] The project was funded in May 2010 by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences as a Glue Grant which supports the research of complex biological problems that cannot be solved by a single research group.[2][3] The EFI was largely spurred by the need to develop methods to identify the functions of the enormous number proteins discovered through genomic sequencing projects.[4]