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Ginkgo Bioworks Acquires AgBiome’s Platform Assets

Expands unified metagenomics database for biological discovery and development.

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By: Kristin Brooks

Managing Editor, Contract Pharma

Ginkgo Bioworks has acquired AgBiome’s platform assets, including over 115,000 fully sequenced and isolated strains, over 500 million unique gene sequences, and relevant functional data and metadata, as well as AgBiome’s development pipeline. These assets will be integrated into Ginkgo Ag Biologicals Services, established with the acquisition of a Bayer agricultural biologicals R&D facility in 2022, and will expand Ginkgo’s unified metagenomics database. Combined, this crea...

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