The Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (acib) is an international non-profit competence and research centre with more than 140 partners around the world. acib’s research focus is in the field of industrial biotechnology. acib adopts tools and methods of nature for new production processes and products with improved ecological efficiency and higher economic efficiency. acib’s major fields of research are bioinformatics/ modeling, biocatalysis, systems and synthetic biology, process engineering, and cell biology.