Machine learning meets molecular farming

Today Lumen announced the first results of our long-running collaboration with Google’s world-beating AI/ML (machine learning) team. The gist: advanced algorithms helped us navigate a dizzying amount of data to double the productivity of cGMP biologics manufacturing platform. The manuscript, titled “Machine Learning Optimization of Photosynthetic Microbe Cultivation and Recombinant Protein Production” has been posted on bioRxiv pending peer review.

To their credit, the Google team only announces such collaborations if/when they prove to be interesting enough to publish. So this is the first time we’ve spoken publicly about the joint effort, and we’re proud to have made that cut with this initial project.

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