The Almac biocatalysis group has secured a BBSRC (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council) program with UCL focused on metagenomics and enzyme discovery. Almac and the departments of Biochemical Engineering and Chemistry at UCL will perform the R&D work, with the input from Professors John Ward and Helen Hailes, leaders in the field of biocatalyst discovery and application.    A limitation of biocatalysis can be the number of diverse enzymes available in a given enzyme class. ...