Overview
Discover, engineer, optimize, and scale up your proteins
Whether you’re looking to discover and synthesize a novel functional protein, optimize your protein production, or enhance processes to scale up your protein manufacturing, Ginkgo’s best-in-class capabilities empower your protein R&D.
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End-to-End Capabilities.
Unparalleled Scale.
From the computational design and discovery of highly functional and novel proteins to the optimization for titer and expression all the way to commercial scale up, Ginkgo’s array of services enable protein products across applications in pharmaceuticals, food, cosmetics, and beyond. Whatever field you’re in, whatever stage you’re at: we can help.
Leverage Ginkgo’s proprietary gene database encompassing >2 billion genes and >8 million natural product gene clusters as well as our advanced machine learning tools, ultra high throughput automation, and proprietary bacterial and fungal production hosts—including Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis, Pichia pastoris, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Aspergillus niger, Corynebacterium glutamicum, Yarrowia lipolytica, and many more model and nonmodel host organisms—to search through the vastness of biological design space to improve your proteins today.

Discover New Proteins

Discover New Proteins
- Discover novel protein functionality, stability, bioactivity, and more and identify starting points for further protein engineering by drawing from our incredibly broad database of proprietary and public genomic sequences
- Mine genome databases using our in-house computational tools to identify thousands of potential hits
- Leverage metagenomic screens to design around existing IP that would otherwise block your development
- Screen candidates using advanced ultra high throughput screening methods to identify unique proteins for your desired function or product
Optimize Protein Function & Stability

Optimize Protein Function & Stability
- Use a broad and constantly expanding toolkit of evolutionary, computational, and rational protein engineering—combined with ultra high throughput screening approaches—to iteratively improve functionality, stability, bioactivity, expression, and more
- Dramatically improve your enzyme’s function by leveraging our platform’s supervised machine learning, powered by data from our ultra high throughput assays
Access Best-in-Class Production Hosts for Robust Expression

Access Best-in-Class Production Hosts for Robust Expression
- Express your protein in our proprietary bacterial and fungal hosts optimized for protein production, including next-generation methanol-free Pichia pastoris and low viscosity Aspergillus niger
- Leverage our deep strain engineering expertise to optimize protein expression in our high expression host strains, tailored to support optimal expression of your protein to reduce your production costs
Develop an Optimized Fermentation Process

Develop an Optimized Fermentation Process
- Use our fleet of hundreds of Sartorius Ambr® 250 bioreactors to automate design of experiments at lab scale to quickly develop fermentation processes with a proven record of transferring to commercial scale
Fermentation Scale Up, Process Design & Tech Transfer

Fermentation Scale Up, Process Design & Tech Transfer
- Access our fermentation capacity, ranging from Ginkgo’s fleet of ~300 Sartorius Ambr® 250 bioreactors to our vessels spanning 1, 5, 10, 30, and 3,000 L and all the way up to the 50,000 L scale with our manufacturing partners, including GMP production
- Optimize your downstream processing and purification methods
- Utilize Ginkgo’s thermal, physical, and chemical separation capabilities to purify a sample for further analysis, testing, or proof of concept
- Enjoy quick project starts thanks to Ginkgo’s incoming analytical technology transfer capabilities and ensure smooth tech transfers back to your team or to your manufacturing partner of choice
- Receive cost modeling and feasibility assessments from our team to inform your decision-making

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