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Ginkgo buys Warp Drive genome-mining platform

by Lisa M. Jarvis
May 18, 2019 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 97, Issue 20

 

Months after acquiring Warp Drive Bio, Revolution Medicines has sold the biotech firm’s genome-mining platform to Ginkgo Bioworks, a Boston-based synthetic-biology firm. Warp Drive has amassed sequencing data for more than 135,000 bacterial strains, a library that researchers sift through in search of clusters that encode for specific structural elements of compounds. Ginkgo says it will continue work related to a 2017 antibiotics drug-discovery pact established between Roche and Warp Drive.

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