Ginkgo Bioworks awarded four-year, up to $47M contract from EMSL

Ginkgo Bioworks (DNA) announced it has been awarded by the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory a four-year, up to $47M contract to co-design, build, and integrate a High-Throughput Automated Phenotyping Platform in support of the Microbial Molecular Phenotyping Capability. The platform, selected through a competitive procurement process, is intended to enable the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research program to generate rich, reproducible microbial and microbiome data that ensure the U.S. remains at the forefront of the bioeconomy, safeguarding economic, societal, and national security benefits while maintaining global leadership in biotechnology innovation.