Ginkgo Strain Optimization Services

Overview

Optimize your strain’s performance and stability for any application

Whether you’re looking to increase your titers, improve your strain’s robustness in harsh industrial conditions, or evolve your strain to grow on more cost-effective inputs, Ginkgo’s best-in-class strain optimization services can help deliver on your goals.

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Diverse Strain Optimization Capabilities.
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From computational tools to in-house DNA design and sequencing services to ultra high throughput screening methods, Ginkgo’s capabilities enable the optimization of strains for diverse applications.

Access Ginkgo’s wide range of strain improvement techniques — from random mutagenesis and adaptive laboratory evolution to rational design approaches — to achieve your key performance metrics. Work with Ginkgo today to engineer a strain that meets your technical specifications, regulatory constraints, and R&D timeline, all while increasing your probability of success.

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Proprietary Biological Assets & Data

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Proprietary Biological Assets & Data

Access our immense biological codebase of strains, enzymes, genetic programs, data, and knowledge accrued from every experiment we’ve run to-date
Accelerate your timeline to find an optimized strain by leveraging our data and biological assets

Strain Evolution & Screening

Strain Evolution & Screening

Engineer your strain to perform under harsh processing, storage, or end-use environments
Utilize Ginkgo’s automated adaptive laboratory evolution (ALE) instruments to improve genetically modified microbes by adapting your strains to industrially-relevant conditions with results in as little as a few months

Ultra High Throughput Encapsulated Screening

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Ultra High Throughput Encapsulated Screening

To unlock the full potential of massive combinatorial libraries and libraries generated through random mutagenesis, you need screening capacity to match
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
Screen diverse organisms including bacteria, yeast, filamentous species, and mammalian cells — whatever’s best for your application
Utilize this ultra high throughput to reduce the screening time for large libraries and increase the probability of finding a hit within commercially-competitive timelines

Strain Characterization & Analytics

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Strain Characterization & Analytics

Leverage our team’s capabilities to develop qualitative and quantitative assays to measure a wide range of phenotypic and biochemical results at scale
Access Ginkgo’s platform and our automation-first mentality to screen multiple metabolites from each sample in parallel

Strain Onboarding & Tech Transfer

Strain Onboarding & Tech Transfer

Leverage our expertise in a range of industrial microbes—including Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis, Pichia pastoris, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Aspergillus niger, Corynebacterium glutamicum, and Yarrowia lipolytica—and many more model and nonmodel host organisms
Ask us about onboarding new species to our platform and our experience developing tools around them

Markets We Serve

One platform, multiple industries. Our tech stack enables faster development, optimized performance, and lower costs for Pharma, Ag, Industrials, Ingredients, and beyond.

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