Instruct-ERIC

Name

Instruct-ERIC

Legal name

Instruct-ERIC - Structural Biology European Research Infrastructure Consortium

Website

https://instruct-eric.eu

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Oxford

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Government/Institutional Funding: As a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC), Instruct-ERIC receives funding from member countries and the European Commission to support operations and provide subsidized access to researchers
2. EU Project Funding: Funding through EU Horizon projects including ISIDORe (infectious diseases), canSERV (cancer research), and iNEXT-Discovery (translational research) provides access funding for researchers
3. Industry Co-Funding: Industrial partners can participate through R&D calls with co-funding arrangements, facilitating development of relationships between Instruct scientists/Centres and industrial partners

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Instruct-ERIC provides researchers worldwide with access to a network of structural biology services and technologies across Europe. Its core offering is a centralized catalogue of 104 services organized into four categories (Sample Preparation, Biomolecular Analysis, 3D Structural Analysis, and Computation and AI), delivered through 11 Instruct Centres and 29 facilities. Researchers access these services via a proposal-based system through the ARIA platform, with funded access available to academic researchers from 17 member countries and organizations, and industry partnerships available through co-funded R&D calls.

Product overview

Instruct-ERIC is a unified pan-European research infrastructure platform that provides centralized access to structural biology services and technologies. The core offering is the Access Platform, which enables researchers to request access to 104 services across 11 Instruct Centres and 29 facilities throughout Europe. The Technology Catalogue organizes services into four categories: Sample Preparation, Biomolecular Analysis, 3D Structural Analysis, and Computation and AI. Supporting services include the ARIA platform for resource allocation and booking, an Instruct Training Program for researcher education, and an R&D Awards Program for funding pilot projects and technology development. Users can apply for funded access through multiple EU project mechanisms including ISIDORe (infectious diseases), canSERV (cancer research), and iNEXT-Discovery (translational research).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Instruct-ERIC Access Platform A pan-European research infrastructure platform that provides researchers worldwide access to high-end structural biology services, technologies, and facilities through a centralized catalogue and proposal submission system.
• Technology Catalogue A searchable catalogue of 104 structural biology services organized into four main technology categories: Sample Preparation, Biomolecular Analysis, 3D Structural Analysis, and Computation and AI, enabling researchers to browse and request access.
• ARIA Platform A research infrastructure management and booking system for accessing technologies and services across Instruct Centres, handling proposal submission, resource allocation, and instrument booking.
• Instruct Training Program Educational program offering training courses, internships, webinars, and workshops on structural biology techniques and technologies for researchers, including hands-on workshops on cryo-FIB-SEM methods and calorimetric/spectroscopic characterization.
• R&D Awards Program Funding program supporting R&D pilot projects, technology development projects, and industrial co-fund R&D projects within the Instruct-ERIC network, including the 2026 Industry co-fund R&D Call.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 13,000 researchers have accessed the infrastructure
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• IMAGINEcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEuropean research collaboration project in structural biology with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), focused on imaging technologies for understanding biological processes at molecular level
• ERIC ForumcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration with other European Research Infrastructure Consortia through the ERIC Forum, working together on shared challenges and opportunities across European research infrastructures
• FragmentScreencoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborative project focused on fragment-based drug discovery using structural biology approaches, making advanced screening technologies accessible to researchers
• canSERVcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEU-funded project providing cutting-edge research services to the cancer research community, supported by Instruct-ERIC structural biology centres offering access to specialized technologies
• EOSC BeyondminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEuropean Open Science Cloud project extending EOSC services and resources for research communities, integrating structural biology data and services into the open science ecosystem
• FheritaleminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborative project focused on heritage science applications using advanced analytical techniques
• ResInfraPlusminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerProject enhancing research infrastructures between Europe and Latin America, improving access and cooperation across regions
• MALDIBANKminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborative initiative focused on MALDI-based analytical technologies and services for structural biology research
• EOSC-UnitedminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerProject uniting European research infrastructures through the European Open Science Cloud, enabling FAIR data and service sharing across the European research landscape
• EGI (European Grid Infrastructure)coreTechnology or IntegrationCollaboration with EGI for cloud computing resources and services. Instruct-ERIC platform benefits from EGI services and resources, with dedicated support from IN2P3-IRES
• ARIAcoreTechnology or IntegrationARIA provides the underlying platform technology powering Instruct-ERIC's service catalogue, proposal submission, and resource booking systems
• University of OxfordcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHost institution for Instruct-ERIC headquarters. The University of Oxford provides institutional support and infrastructure for the ERIC headquarters location in Oxford

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• ELIXIR: ELIXIR is a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) for bioinformatics, operating a distributed node model across European member countries. It is directly comparable to Instruct-ERIC in governance structure, funding model, and pan-European coordination of life-sciences research services.
• Euro-BioImaging: Euro-BioImaging is a European ERIC providing open access to biological and biomedical imaging technologies across distributed nodes. It mirrors Instruct-ERIC's ERIC structure, member-country funding model, and catalogue-based access approach for adjacent structural-biology-adjacent techniques.
• BBMRI-ERIC: BBMRI-ERIC is a European research infrastructure for biobanking operating under the same ERIC legal framework. It shares the pan-European distributed governance model, member-country funding base, and catalogue-driven access paradigm that Instruct-ERIC uses.
• Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC): CCDC is a non-profit crystallographic data repository and software provider serving the structural chemistry community. It is comparable as a non-profit scientific data infrastructure with academic and industrial users in adjacent structural biology domains.
• The SGC (Structural Genomics Consortium): The SGC is an international public-private partnership that determines 3D structures of proteins with therapeutic relevance. It is directly comparable to Instruct-ERIC in structural biology focus, open-access publishing model, and industry collaboration mechanisms.

Emerging players

• EU-OPENSCREEN: EU-OPENSCREEN is a European ERIC for chemical biology and early-stage drug discovery, providing access to screening compound libraries and hit discovery technologies. It is comparable as a sister ERIC-structured infrastructure serving academic and industrial life-sciences users across Europe.

Broad incumbents

• EATRIS: EATRIS is a European research infrastructure for translational medicine, providing access to advanced research services across multiple biomedical domains. It is comparable as a sister ERIC operating in the broader life-sciences services space with overlapping academic and industrial user bases.
• European XFEL: European XFEL is an international X-ray free-electron laser facility used for serial femtosecond crystallography and structural biology. It is comparable as a large-scale structural biology enablement infrastructure serving European researchers including those routed through Instruct-ERIC.
• European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF): ESRF is a large-scale intergovernmental synchrotron facility used heavily for structural biology (X-ray crystallography, SAXS). It is comparable as a strategic structural biology infrastructure whose beamlines are accessed by Instruct-ERIC users and member institutions.
• EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory): EMBL is a leading intergovernmental molecular biology research organization in Europe with broad mandate across structural biology, genomics, and cell biology. It is comparable as a higher-tier European life-sciences research institution that hosts major structural biology facilities and collaborates with Instruct-ERIC (notably through IMAGINE).

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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