The Enzyme Function Initiative (EFI) is a large scale collaborative project aiming to develop and disseminate a robust strategy to determine enzyme function through an integrated sequence-structure based approach. The project was funded in May 2010 by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences as a Glue Grant which supports the research of complex biological problems that cannot be solved by a single research group. The EFI was largely spurred by the need to develop methods to identify the functions of the enormous number proteins discovered through genomic sequencing projects.