About the Hub
Ecosystem that accelerates SynBioAI solutions for a better world.
Three pillars, one loop
Leverage the whole loop end-to-end, or access each module on its own — synthetic biology for a better planet, open to all stakeholders.
Design & learn
SynBioAI · The AI platform
Curated AI × Bio models, hosted by us. Bring your problem and take away predictions — or iterate between the AI models and the lab, yours or ours.
- Curated, hosted AI × Bio models that compress a vast design space into the few candidates worth building.
- Use it standalone — submit data, get predictions back — or loop it with wet-lab results, yours or ours.
- A separate, hosted application, currently in limited release to select researchers and companies.
Build & test
SynBioLabs · The wet lab
A wet lab built for molecular and microbial engineering — open to partners and startups as Lab-as-a-Service.
- Molecular biology and engineering workflows — backed by a CrisprBits - AU CoE for strain engineering and translation.
- Microbial engineering and animal cell culture labs with BSL-2 facilities.
- For startups needing lab capacity without building their own, or partners who need the wet-lab half of a programme.
Validate & deploy
SynBioResearch · Applied R&D
Applied, partner-driven R&D and expert consultancy — AI-guided design and the wet lab brought to your problem, end to end.
- Commercially partnered: defined, milestone-based R&D toward joint, IP-generating outcomes.
- Collaborative: co-developed work with academic and industry partners, including non-dilutive grants applications or Research As A Service.
- For organisations with a real problem and a clear path to real-world impact.
Why does the hub exist?
Synthetic biology is already solving real problems — in health, in materials, in how we make things. But the work is often slow and painstaking: each round of design, building and testing in the lab takes time and resources, and getting from an idea to something that works can mean a lot of trial and error.
AI is starting to change that. Building on the same transformer architecture behind recent advances in language, protein and genomic foundation models — trained on millions of sequences and structures — can now suggest plausible proteins, predict function and guide design, helping researchers narrow down what to build before they ever pick up a pipette. To use them well, though, you need real capability in AI — and it has to work hand in hand with actual experimental data, so the models learn from what the lab measures.
That capability is growing around the world, and in India too, with many groups contributing. India’s bioeconomy has grown quickly in recent years — now over $150 billion — and national efforts like the BioE3 policy are encouraging biomanufacturing and high-performance biology. The SynBioHub is our way of bringing AI and the wet lab together in one place. We do our own work and partner with others — from circularity and biomanufacturing to enzyme and strain engineering — and we keep the platform and the lab open to anyone who wants to use them. If you’re working on a problem AI-guided biology could help with, we’d like to hear from you.
What we’re building toward
An ecosystem where AI, the wet lab and real-world problems compound into capability, IP and talent.
Real-world impact
An innovation ecosystem
Intellectual property
Consultancy & advisory
Research-as-a-service
Training & talent
Part of Atria’s Centre of Excellence in Life Sciences
The Hub is closely tied to Atria University’s CoE in Life Sciences — our team leads it, and the CoE’s faculty back our work.
That connection gives us allied faculty across cancer cell biology, AMR microbiology, plant pathology, electrochemistry-with-microbiology and more — and a route for MS-by-Research and PhD researchers to study with us through Atria’s programmes.
Work with us
Ready to build with AI-guided biology?
From a joint, IP-generating partnership to Lab- or Platform-as-a-Service — let's find the right way to work together.