AgBio

The AgBio industry is engaged in a continuing quest for increased productivity from the plants and animals that growers raise. From limited and environmentally sensitive resources of land, water and energy, agriculture around the world is called upon to feed an ever-growing population. Rapid advances in genomics have been useful, but reaction to GMO’s has limited their value. AgBio companies also find that there can be enormous hurdles in bringing advances from the lab and greenhouse out into the field and the underlying causes of these problems often remain mysterious. A new generation of AgBio research has begun to focus on microbiomes both outside of and inside of the animal or plant of interest and the result has been the compilation of enormous data collections that await analysis.

Mimetics computational platform works to analyze how genetic patterns are expressed in phenotypes and the dynamics of the regulatory networks that govern this expression. Two genetically ‘identical’ organisms may respond in very different ways to environmental stresses depending on the circumstances under which those stresses are applied (time of day for example). The same is true for signaling pathways between cells which permit organisms to communicate in a microbiome. These analyses require large amounts of data to be collected according to demanding protocols and then analyzed to extract the dynamics. Mimetics technology is built precisely to handle these challenges.