CAMBIA is a private, independent, non-profit institute which conducts research in areas of strategic importance for sustainable agriculture and is a leading organisation in developing “open” approaches to agriculture research and development. In particular they have developed the following projects:
- Technology projects:
- Diversity Arrays™ Technology (DArT) is a novel genotyping method developed originally using plant genomes as models, which provides for low cost, high throughput, sequence-independent genotyping.
- GUS can be licensed for research or commercial use in agricultre. GUSPlus™ vector is CAMBIA’s latest ß-glucuronidase reporter gene system. Both are featured in some pCAMBIA vectors.
- The TransBacter™ plant transformation system was published in in Nature on 10 February 2005.
- CAMBIA is the founding member of the BIOS initiative. BIOS (Biological Innovation for an Open Society) is developing and validating new means for the cooperative invention, improvement and delivery of biological technologies. BIOS draws inspiration from the open source software movement to forge a “protected commons”, but is adapted for biological innovations including patented technologies.
- CAMBIA’s Intellectual Property Resource (formerly www.cambiaIP.org) is now part of the BIOS initiative, in the Patent Tools section. These tools include the world’s largest free full-text searchable patent database, a variety of technology landscape papers and patent tutorials.