Dear colleagues,   As you will probably know, the work on Guidelines for Reporting of Biocatalytic Reactions, endorsed by ESAB, was published in Trends in Biotechnology, Volume 28, p 171-180. A preprint of this article is available here, and may be distributed to anyone interested. We also welcome comments on how the guidelines might be improved and/or implemented more widely. A Forum has been established, at which comments and discussion on the guidelines may be entered by anyone interested.

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• to take initiatives in areas of growing scientific and industrial interest and importance in the field of applied biocatalysis

• to identify key topics which may be rate-limiting in the development of scientific progress and technological prospects in applied biocatalysis and to take steps to stimulate these areas

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