Nutrition & Wellness

Functional Proteins

Example Products: functional dairy products, egg proteins, low-cost growth factors and recombinant proteins

What Differentiates Ginkgo:

• Leverage our capabilities to quickly run thousands to millions of experiments in parallel to find the needle in the haystack: the right strain to express your protein at the right titer
  
  
• Maximize productivity and reduce production complexities with our low viscosity and low protease fungal strains or proprietary methanol-free yeast strains
  
  
• Review our expansive list of production host strains to identify the best fit for your protein application
  
  
• Utilize our abilities to develop assays to test your protein’s functionality while also achieving the titer you need
  
  
• Optimize and scale up your production to kilograms of protein per year

Fats & Oils

Example Products: cocoa butter, essential fatty acids, oleic acid

What Differentiates Ginkgo:

• Leverage our unique fungal strains for high fat production
  
  
• Engineer strains capable of fat synthesis to create branched fatty acids with different chain lengths to meet your specifications
  
  
• Leverage our high-throughput strain engineering toolkit and knowledge of lipid biosynthetic pathways to optimize your existing strains

Enzymes

Example Products: amylases, lipases, oxidases

What Differentiates Ginkgo:

• Leverage our ability to discover novel enzyme activity and identify starting points for further protein engineering by drawing from our incredibly broad database of proprietary and public genomic sequences
  
  
• Dramatically improve enzyme function using our supervised machine learning powered by data from our ultra high throughput assays
  
  
• Utilize our deep strain engineering expertise to optimize enzyme expression in our high-expression host strains, tailored to support optimal expression of your enzyme to reduce your production costs

Flavors, Fragrances & Pigments

Example Products: phenolic compounds, pigments from natural plant extracts

What Differentiates Ginkgo:

• Leverage Ginkgo’s deep expertise and codebase in enzymes and biosynthetic pathways, which enables us to start your project at a much more advanced stage 
  
  
• Utilize our abilities to develop assays to test your molecule’s functionality while also achieving the titer you need
  
  
• Utilize our significant assets in expressing aromatics in a variety of host strains
  
  
• Optimize and scale up your production to metric tons of product per year

Probiotics & Microbiome

Example Products: gut microbes, skin microbes, pre- and post-biotics

What Differentiates Ginkgo:

• We begin every project by leveraging the data we’ve accumulated from working with dozens of strains across hundreds of projects to determine the best starting point for new strain designs. Our biological codebase enables strain optimization on accelerated timelines with partners from the discovery stage to clinical trials.
  
  
• Utilize Ginkgo’s extensive technologies for high throughput strain discovery and optimization to improve genetically modified microbes as well as non-GM microbes thanks to our automated adaptive laboratory evolution (ALE) instruments
  
  
• Search through up to 1 million strain variants in a single run using our ultra high throughput screening platform built on nanoliter encapsulation technology, which provides nanoscale growth and assay compartments for diverse organisms including bacteria, yeast, filamentous species, and mammalian cells
  
  
• Utilize our wide range of capabilities in discovering promising strains via advanced analytical capabilities, whole genome sequencing, transcriptomic, proteomic, and data driven metabolomic modeling

Personal Care Ingredients

• Develop natural ingredients including functional proteins, peptides, and polysaccharides to meet the growing demand for sustainable, and animal-cruelty free ingredients
  

Natural Preservatives

• Discover novel natural preservatives to replace harsh synthetic chemicals

Infant Nutrition

• Discover and optimize production of highly nutritional natural molecules including human milk oligosaccharides and tailored lipids to enhance infant health and nutrition

Supplements & Nutraceuticals

• Enhance your production of beneficial nutraceutical and supplements including vitamins and amino acids to drive global access and growth

Cultured Meat

• Accelerate the growth of the cellular agriculture industry by developing solutions like low-cost recombinant proteins and biological solutions for waste media recycling to drive towards a more sustainable future