Deep-learning models for enzyme design to accelerate sustainable chemical manufacturing.
Ligo Biosciences builds next-generation deep-learning models for computational enzyme design, targeting the $6 trillion chemical industry's reliance on energy-intensive and polluting synthesis processes. The company's models learn the principles of catalysis to design enzymes for specific reactions in days rather than years, analogous to how AlphaFold created a computational interface for protein geometry. In early trials with a lithium mining company, Ligo's models predicted the shape of hard rock lithium deposits more than an order of magnitude more accurately than competing approaches. The team spans biology, chemistry, mathematics, and computer science. Ligo Biosciences is a product of Ligo Biosciences.