Metagenomics and Industrial Application

This document discusses the potential for metagenomics to provide novel enzymes and biocatalysts for various industrial applications. It outlines how different industries, such as chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and detergents, are interested in accessing new enzymes from uncultured microbes. The document also discusses challenges in finding suitable enzymes and describes screening methods used to identify candidate enzymes from metagenomic libraries for specific industrial transformations and processes.