Ginkgo Protein Services - Ginkgo Bioworks

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.

How can we help you?

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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Explore how biology is being used across industries and how Ginkgo can help you.

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Featured Projects & News

Ginkgo is your end-to-end synthetic biology R&D partner. Browse a selection of our partner projects and case studies to explore how biology is being used across industries.

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Agriculture

Crop protection and nutrition, animal health and wellness, carbon solutions: we’re here to help. Explore our projects and learn more about how we help our partners in the agricultural sector.

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WHAT WE DO

Ginkgo Protein Production Services

Overview

Discover, engineer, optimize, and scale up your proteins

End-to-End Capabilities. Unparalleled Scale.

Discover New Proteins

Discover New Proteins

Optimize Protein Function & Stability

Optimize Protein Function & Stability

Access Best-in-Class Production Hosts for Robust Expression

Access Best-in-Class Production Hosts for Robust Expression

Develop an Optimized Fermentation Process

Develop an Optimized Fermentation Process

Fermentation Scale Up, Process Design & Tech Transfer

Fermentation Scale Up, Process Design & Tech Transfer

Markets We Serve

Agriculture

Biopharmaceutical

Governments

Industrials

Nutrition & Wellness

…and many more!

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Start a project today.

Featured Projects & News

Agriculture

Strain Improvement for Sustainable Agriculture with Bayer

Ginkgo Expands Agricultural Biologicals Division, Closes Deal with Bayer

Expanding Our Platform Capabilities in Agricultural Biologicals and Launching Flagship Partnership with Bayer

Optimizing Enzyme Expression and Performance with Zymtronix

New Platform Venture: Launching BiomEdit

Optimizing the Brightness of Glowing Plants with Light Bio

Synthetic Biology for Climate Action

The Future of Food with Motif FoodWorks

Biopharmaceutical

Optimizing Crucial Drug Manufacturing of APIs with Merck

Unlocking the Potential of Expression Systems for Medicines with Novo Nordisk

Improving the Specificity and Activity of a Biocatalyst

Enzyme Discovery Powered by Large Metagenomic Libraries

High Throughput Screening for Designing Novel CAR-T Cell Therapies

Manufacturing Breakthrough for mRNA Raw Materials with Aldevron

Advancing Treatments for Orphan and Rare Diseases with Selecta Biosciences

Developing Next-Generation Gene Therapy Capsids with Selecta Biosciences

Improving the Manufacture of Biosynthetic Heparin with Optimvia

Investigational Synthetic Biotic Medicine for Homocystinuria with Synlogic

Optimizing Enzyme Expression and Performance with Zymtronix

Developing Circular RNA-based Therapeutics with Esperovax

Engineering Bacteria for Cancer Patient Treatment with Prokarium

Improving Living Medicines with Synlogic

New Platform Ventures: Launching Verb Biotics, Ayana Bio

Accelerating Production of Essential Medicines with Antheia

Developing High-Efficacy Adjuvants for Vaccines with SaponiQx

Developing Synthetic Biotics for Gout with Synlogic

Discovering Novel Live Biotherapeutics with Microba

Engineering Living Biotherapeutics for Gastrointestinal Health with Tantu

Needle in a Haystack: Looking for Compounds to Treat COVID-19

Supporting COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Development with Moderna

Teaming Up to Improve Antibody Therapeutics for COVID-19

A New Modality of Medicine: Nucleic Acid Vaccines

Discovering Enzymes for New Applications

Improving Titer with Process Optimization

The Era of Living Medicines with Synlogic

Governments

Detecting Engineered DNA with IARPA & Draper

Building a Global Immune System with Concentric by Ginkgo

Manufacturing Breakthrough for mRNA Raw Materials with Aldevron

Tracking Pathogen Variants with Rwanda Biomedical Centre

Supporting COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Development with Moderna

Synthetic Biology for Climate Action

600,000 Noses Swabbed!

Expanding Ginkgo’s Platform for Biosecurity and Pandemic Responsiveness

Accelerating Industrial Adoption of High-Performance Biomaterials with Cambium

Developing Water Quality Biosensors with FREDSense

Concentric by Ginkgo: COVID-19 testing at scale

Our Work on Biosecurity with IARPA

Industrials

Optimizing Production of Biobased Speciality Chemicals with Lygos

Accelerating Industrial Adoption of High-Performance Biomaterials with Cambium

Biobased Alternatives to Synthetic Polymers with Bioweg

Improving the Specificity and Activity of a Biocatalyst

End-to-End Capabilities.
Unparalleled Scale.