BaseFold leverages Basecamp Research's purpose-built foundational dataset to significantly increase prediction accuracy of large, complex protein structures and small molecule interactions — it is up to six times more accurate than AlphaFold2 and offers up to a three-fold improvement in small molecule docking.

With higher protein sequence diversity captured in this dataset compared to existing public data, we apply this data advantage to the protein folding problem by MSA supplementation during inference of AlphaFold2.

At Basecamp Research, we’re on a mission to build the perfect foundational datasets for AI in biology. Now, finally, it feels like the model architectures are beginning to get sophisticated enough to unlock the true potential of what we’ve built.

Basecamp Research shares their experience in Access & Benefit Sharing in the ICC UK's 2024 Report "Trade for Prosperity - Delivering Sustainable Global Value Chains"

The companies will develop novel enzymes that break down difficult-to-recycle plastic waste to solve a major bottleneck in the fashion industry.

Bupe, Biodiversity Partnerships Manager at Basecamp Research, has joined SynBio Africa as their newest Scientific Advisor.

Here,we present HiFi-NN (Hierarchically-Finetuned Nearest Neighbor search) which annotates protein sequences with greater precision and recall than all existing deep learning methods.

In October, our Ocean Research Lead, Emma Bolton, attended a 4-day Ocean Solution Accelerator, run by the incredible Leslie Smith from iDOOS (Implementing a Deep Ocean Observing Strategy).

Johnson Matthey, a specialty chemicals and sustainable technologies company, reports that it has partnered with Basecamp Research, which maps global biodiversity for computational biodesign applications, to accelerate the adoption of more sustainable, bio-based catalysts.

Delegates from our Global Biodiversity Research and Partnerships team will be arriving at COP28 from today onwards to promote three themes that emphasise how understanding and learning from biodiversity can play a critical role in planetary health, and in turn contribute to a value-based system for biodiversity preservation.

This partnership combines Johnson Matthey’s catalysis expertise with Basecamp Research’s AI-enabled biodiversity genetic mapping to meet the growing demand of the pharmaceutical and chemicals industry.

With climate, pollution, and biodiversity crises looming, humanity has the opportunity to turn to the oceans for a path forward. The sea offers a wealth of biodiversity, with millions of species holding unexplored genetic and chemical diversity which can support the Blue Economy and global health.

Colorifix, the world’s first company to use an entirely biological process to produce, deposit, and fix pigments onto textiles, partners with Basecamp Research to accelerate R&D processes through AI and computational modelling.

Large language models have immense potential, but also major shortcomings. Knowledge graphs make LLMs more accurate, transparent, and explainable.

Basecamp Research is transforming biotech, using Neo4j’s graph database to map Earth’s biodiversity.

The world is rushing to embrace Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs), seeing how these tools could drive a massive productivity boost in the workplace.

Basecamp Research's session on their Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) approach to addressing Digital Sequence Information (DSI) through its Biodiversity Collaborations

During the crossing, the team will be collecting air samples as part of a scientific study supported by Basecamp Research.

The ocean is teeming with uncharted life and most of it remains unexplored — something researchers from academia and private companies are racing to change...

DNA monitoring has emerged as a revolutionary tool for monitoring biodiversity, providing scientists with a non-invasive, cost-effective method for tracking species presence and diversity across ecosystems...

We are thrilled to announce that Kevin K. Yang, a world-leading expert in the field of protein machine learning, is joining Basecamp Research as an advisor.

Marcus Leung reveals what life is like at the crossroads between industry and research as a bioinformatician for Basecamp Research.

Read and listen to Freya from Sifted's dispatch from Hungary, where she joined Basecamp on a microbe-hunting mission. On a cave lake, metres below the town of Tapolca in Hungary, two scientists paddle along in a boat...

Marine environments are particularly interesting and essential to study to discover new species and assess biodiversity — find out why from Emma, a field research scientist at Basecamp Research

Can Basecamp Research's unique approach to sampling nature ethically, combined with a cutting-edge machine learning platform, accelerate the power of biotechnology and help nations value their biodiversity?

Nature Biotechnology News reflects on how protein engineers are drawing on rapidly evolving tools and datasets to pursue more sophisticated de novo protein designs.

CRISPR for gene editing applications is beyond a doubt a milestone in modern biotechnology. Moving beyond edits, recent discoveries have enabled ‘gene writing’ technology, that is the insertion of large DNA ‘cargoes’ into host genomes.

Previously thought to be firmly a eukaryotic feature, two weeks ago Researchers from London and the US published that they had found evidence of histone proteins in Bacteria.

Emma Bolton is a Field Research Scientist at Basecamp Research, who focuses on collecting environmental samples with partner groups internationally, using a mobile DNA sequencing laboratory to facilitate building an open-source atlas of bacterial diversity.

Hear why protecting global biodiversity is intrinsically linked to the scaling of the biotechnology industry, in less than 10 minutes.

Basecamp and its commercial customers can look at the DNA they want, to work out what organisms it came from in its full genomic context.

Basecamp, which was founded in 2019, secured its funding from climate investor Systemiq Ventures, Valo, Blue Horizon, True Ventures and Hummingbird Ventures. The fresh round brings the company’s total funding to $30m.

The Basecamp team is working around the world to establish partnerships with local communities to gather and protect biological data, as well as to make it easier for synthetic biology companies to gain access to valuable genetic information which can help them develop new sustainable products.

If you had a magic wand, what would you wish for: More data or more compute?

Pre-print from our first collaboration with Dr Noelia Ferruz on an enzyme-specific language model to provide new opportunities to design purpose-built artificial enzymes.

Introducing our new Graph Data Science advisor: Alicia Frame, Google and former Neo4j Graph Science exec.

Introducing our new Protein Machine Learning advisor: Noelia Ferruz, PhD, first author of the ProtGPT2 Nature paper.

Basecamp's Saif Ur-Rehman, senior data engineer, explains how and why we use Neo4j.

Winning Gold in the AWS Awards has shone a light on the work done by this dynamic startup—work that really does leverage technology to power a more sustainable future.