bit-GEM
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The world’s most diverse database—2 billion sequences and growing—built on single-cell sequencing of microbes from natural samples
Our bit-GEM database is the leading resource for searchable and highly usable microbe genome sequences.
Drawing on nature’s most potent microbial resources, including samples from environments like soil, marine water, hot springs, mining sites, and other extreme conditions, our database contains over a billion gene sequences that cannot be obtained by any other method—and perhaps most importantly, are not available in any public database.
Benefits
- Large collection of extremophiles with potentially novel enzyme activities and functional requirements
- Unique, free-to-operate, patentable sequences
- Industry-wide applications, including healthcare, pharma, sustainability, food, materials, and chemicals
By the Numbers
- 2 billion and growing proprietary sequences currently in the database
- 1 billion new sequences every year
- ~60% from environmental samples
Related Case Studies
Drug Biomanufacturing Case Study
A stronger, more diverse toolkit of transaminase enzymes requires going back in evolutionary time through ancestral sequence reconstruction.
Materials & Textiles Case Study
To build a world beyond plastic, we first need to maximize the potential and performance of PETase enzymes.
