Overview
The Beilstein Symposia address contemporary issues in chemistry and neighboring sciences by emphasizing interdisciplinarity. Scientists from a wide range of areas – often outside chemistry – are invited to present (provoking) aspects of their work for “out of the box” discussion with the aim not only to advance science, but also to enhance interdisciplinary communication.
The European Society of Applied Biocatalysis (ESAB) takes initiatives in areas of growing scientific and industrial interest and importance in the field of applied biocatalysis and identifies key topics which may be rate-limiting in the development of scientific progress and technological prospects in applied biocatalysis and takes steps to stimulate these areas.
Many years ago, the organizers of this symosium stated that "the flood of information generated as a result of research in genomics and proteomics is often completely overwhelming", which makes it inherently difficult to use this information for analysis, confirmation, interpretation, and even to understand the experimental results and to distinguish between real findings and assumptions. As much of the experimental data is reused for model development, e.g., in systems and structural biology and in drug discovery and targeting, there is a requirement to ensure accuracy and contextual quality of this data. Contextual data is data that describes the experimental data with unambiguous attributes and is now called metadata.
This symposium provides insight into gaps and pitfalls of the current reporting procedure and addresses the requirements to make published enzyme data reusable or even reproducible by a variety of community-driven efforts,