Shiru's ProteinDiscovery.ai AI Protein Discovery & Marketplace Platform Speeds Up Personal Care R&D

Shiru, a company using AI to optimize the discovery, development and scale up of proteins for personal care and other industries, has launched the ProteinDiscovery.ai marketplace, featuring 33 million molecules/protein sequences.

Molecules can be searched by sequence, functional use and successful expression, per Shiru, via a "simple" web interface.

Using AI models, large datasets and automated biochemistry, users can connect the dots between natural protein sequences and novel applications. 

Companies can then use the ProteinDiscovery.ai platform to test those proteins and, if successful, purchase the property rights to these materials in perpetuity for application in product innovation.

In this way, Shiru claims, ProteinDiscovery.ai creates new biobased ingredient intellectual property. 

The company claims that this process "can save companies millions of dollars in R&D costs—and years of work," thereby accelerating personal care innovation by simplifying the search for efficacious ingredients that meet clean label or stability demands.

Shiru’s has already launched one personal care technology on its own, OleoPro, a structured fat that replaces palm and coconut oil and cocoa butter in personal care.

According to the company, "The highly tunable protein technology powering OleoPro allows oils to be used in new ways to deliver a range of previously impossible functionality for food and consumer products..."

“With ProteinDiscovery.ai we’ve made the world of natural proteins for industrial applications accessible," said Shiru founder and CEO Jasmin Hume, Ph.D. "We’ve even added the ability for users to easily purchase samples, creating the ‘Amazon for proteins.' We’ve been using AI to identify high-value, novel, scalable proteins for years, fueling our own product development. With significant recent interest from CPGs and ingredients companies alike, we decided to open our toolbox to everyone.”