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We’re thrilled to share that Basecamp Research has been named to Fast Company’s 2025 World’s Most Innovative Companies list! 🚀

A huge thank you to our incredible team, partners, and the wider scientific community who support our mission.

Read more here: bit.ly/43S6CrF

#FCMostInnovative

Excited for #GTC2025! 💚 Gus Minto-Cowcher joins Microsoft onstage to share how Basecamp Research uses Azure VMs & AI Services—accelerated by NVIDIA GPUs—to decode complex biological data.

Catch it live: March 19, 12pm PDT @ Microsoft Theater. Don’t miss it!

#MLOps #GeneticMedicine #DrugDiscovery

The Future of Cell & Gene Therapies—Powered by AI

Basecamp Research CEO @glengowers.bsky.social is speaking at BIO-Europe Spring on how AI + the world’s largest biological dataset are shaping gene writing & programmable insertion.

For info go to bit.ly/3FpB9Df

#BIOEuropeSpring #GeneticMedicine

💊 BigDataWire explores how Basecamp Research is pushing the boundaries of discovery—traveling to the most remote corners of the planet to gather novel biological data that’s transforming AI drug development.

Read the story here: bigdatawire.com/2025/02/18/g...

#AI #drugdiscovery #biodiversity

Thanks @naturebiotech.bsky.social for covering our work building the world’s largest foundational biological database for training AI.

🔬 What does this mean? Smarter AI, deeper insights & innovations that aid both biodiversity and drug discovery.

Read the article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🏔️ The journal Environmental Biome has published a our collaboration with the British Antarctic Survey, examining the impact of sewage and wastewater from increased Antarctic tourism on antimicrobial resistance near the shores of the Earth's last great wildernesses.

📘 Read it here: bit.ly/3Chqut0

🌱 For #WEF2025, Tendai Chisowa & Viswa Colluru discuss how studying nature can transform AI in the pharmaceutical industry—lowering costs and speeding up innovation.

Thanks Tendai & Viswa for including Basecamp's work to close the data gap.

Read the article here: weforum.org/meetings/wor...

📅 Meet Us at Davos: Join Oliver at the "Accelerating Business Solutions for Nature" panel on January 22.

Want to connect in Davos? Reach out to us at explore@basecamp-research.com

The Future of Biodiversity Finance: Removing Barriers to Action Extractive practices, short-term profit maximization and shareholder capitalism are accelerating the extinction of life on Earth. What measures must be taken to end such destructive processes?

🎥 In this video, André Hoffmann—author of "The New Nature of Business," Roche board Vice-Chairman & a Basecamp Research investor—explores biodiversity as an asset class www.weforum.org/videos/biodi...

As #WEF2025 helps define the year's priorities, 3 themes stand out: safeguarding the planet, advancing industries in the intelligent age, & reimagining growth.

🗻 Basecamp Research's Oliver Vince is headed to #Davos2025. This year’s #WEF theme, "Collaboration for the Intelligent Age," aligns with our mission to build a global network of biodiversity partnerships to train next-gen AI.

📅 Want to connect in Davos? Reach out at explore@basecamp-research.com.

🧬 At #BioLogicSummit, geraldenemunsamy.bsky.social
will share how Basecamp Research's database, the largest & most diverse of its kind, helped our AI protein structure prediction tool outperform AlphaFold by up to 6x.

For info, visit biologicsummit.com/training-dat...

#drugdiscovery #biotech

This Startup Says It Can Beat Deepmind’s Gamechanging Protein AI Basecamp Research says its software platform can better predict the way proteins behave — not with better algorithms, but with higher-quality data.

www.forbes.com/sites/alexkn...

How to Fund Biodiversity and Fight ‘Biopiracy’ Over the last decade, technological innovation has fundamentally changed how companies make use of the world’s genetic resources.

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To feed an AI that designs new enzymes, Basecamp Research hunts rare proteins at the world's end In a new study, Basecamp and Institute of Molecular Biology of Barcelona detail a new AI model called ZymCTRL that designs new enzymes.

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Basecamp raises $60M to travel the globe and fill AI data gaps, signs deal with David Liu London-based startup Basecamp Research has closed a $60 million Series B round that will help expand its genomic database and what it sees as gaps in biological information that will ...

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Basecamp Research pushes for programmable genetic medicines with new computer cluster, CSO and Massachusetts lab British tech firm Basecamp Research is making a big push forward to further its mission of developing programmable genetic medicines. | British tech firm Basecamp Research is making a big push forward...

Read some recent coverage of us here:

www.fiercebiotech.com/research/com...

Heading to #JPM2025? 🧬 Basecamp Research's
Co-founder & CEO @glengowers.bsky.social, CCO Anupama Hoey & new CSO John Finn will be there, meeting partners and exploring new collaborations.

📅 If you’d like to meet in San Francisco, contact us at explore@basecamp-research.com

🧬We're excited to share a series of announcements: John Finn has joined Basecamp Research as CSO, we've opened a US office and lab & we built one of Europe's largest industrial supercomputers with NVIDIA Accelerated Computing. Read Fierce Biotech's story here: www.fiercebiotech.com/research/com...
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🎄Happy Holidays from all of us at Basecamp Research. Thank you to the clients, biodiversity partners, investors, advisors, scientific collaborators & journalists who helped share our story over this past phenomenal year!

Stay tuned for 2025, we'll kick off the new year with some big announcements!

🗞️ In the The Biologist's latest issue, Basecamp Research's @glengowers.bsky.social & Oliver Vince explain how to equitably supply the high-quality biological data that advanced AI models need.

Basecamp Research is also in the running for
#SXSWLondon. You can help by voting for us: bit.ly/3VDFBn8

🎦 We're in an era where nature & synthetic biology collide, @glengowers.bsky.social told the 2024 Forbes Healthcare Summit. You can watch his panel "The New Era Of Drug Discovery": bit.ly/4fgaZPy

Basecamp Research is also in the running for #SXSWLondon. You can help by voting for us: bit.ly/3VDFBn8

Basecamp Research cofounder and CEO Glen Gowers, Ph.D., spoke about AI and drug discovery at the 2024 Forbes Healthcare Summit in New York City. #ForbesHealth
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Thanks to @forbes.com and @thealexknapp.bsky.social for an amazing summit a thought-provoking event.

🪼Frontiers In Marine Science has published a research collaboration between Basecamp Research scientists and our biodiversity partners at Heritage Malta. The paper looks at how microorganisms adapt and evolve differently on wrecks at great depths. You can read it here: bit.ly/4fXNvQv

Here’s the updated Computational Biology Starter Pack! Let me know if you'd like to be included.

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🌍 Basecamp Research's Co-Founder @glengowers.bsky.social is speaking about how AI is transforming drug discovery at the 13th annual
@forbes.com Healthcare Summit in NYC on December 4.
For more info, visit bit.ly/4fvhM8k

#ForbesHealth

Though our work differs from Netflix, Basecamp Research shares one similarity: Our data is growing by an order of magnitude every year. As we build a digital twin of the natural world, our data expands exponentially. Read our CTO Phil Lorenz's insights in the FT's Sifted: sifted.eu/intelligence...

How Basecamp Research Helps Catalog Earth’s Biodiversity Basecamp Research is on a mission to capture the vastness of life on Earth at an unprecedented scale. Phil Lorenz, CTO at Basecamp Research, discusses using AI and biodiversity data to advance fields like medicine and environmental conservation with host Noah Kravitz in this AI Podcast episode recorded live at the NVIDIA GTC global AI Read Article

How Basecamp Research Helps Catalog Earth’s Biodiversity | NVIDIA Blog

Basecamp Research taps $60M to build a ‘GPT for biology’ While companies like OpenAI and Anthropic continue to popularize the idea of people using ordinary language to ask artificial intelligence agents to answer their questions, write their proposals, and draw pictures, a London startup called Basecamp…

Basecamp Research taps $60M to build a ‘GPT for biology’

Basecamp Research Partners with Cameroon to Share Benefits from Genetic Data Use in Landmark Agreement

▶️ Basecamp Research’s new access and benefit-sharing partnership with the government of Cameroon includes a model for sharing data and resources to further research and protect local biodiversity: www.biopharmatrend.com/post/904-bas...