SynBio Markets 2019 is an event dedicated to the synbio sector in Europe. The event aims to link science to business and focused on turning potential into profit. With the participation of synbio investors, academics, innovators and commercial end market customers across the agriculture and food, chemicals and materials, and healthcare and pharma industries. The event on … Continued
Lisboa is currently at the heart of the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem, supported by highly skilled and motivated companies, professionals and educational institutions. The second day, Health Startup Day, is dedicated to startups and investors focused on health care, biotechnology, life sciences and innovation. If you would like to have a meeting with our delegates … Continued
SilicoLife will be present at the European Forum for Industrial Biotechnology, taking place on 30 September – 2 October 2018, in Brussels, Belgium. EFIB is the European market leading conference for the industrial biotechnology, if you would like to have a meeting with our delegates please contact us.
SilicoLife is one of the six selected companies by the European Innovation Council (EIC) to participate in a pitching session to virtually pitch their business ideas to top-tier investors: Solvay Ventures, Dow, BASF and Evonik. The event will be taking place from – 10:30 am to 12:30 am CET 18th of September 2019. The pitching will happen virtually here. The selected companies have … Continued
The development of economically feasible and sustainable biotechnological processes as alternatives to oil-based chemistry is one of the major goals of bio-based economy. The global chemical industry has initiated a crucial transition from petrochemical processes to bio-based chemical processes. Synthetic biology and bio-based processes are expected to become the preferred approach to produce chemicals from renewable … Continued
SilicoLife leading DeepBio focused on the application of deep learning to industrial biotechnology SilicoLife, University of Minho and NOVA University of Lisbon were awarded a national grant for the development of novel approaches for the computational design of new molecules and biotransformations with enhanced capabilities, boosted by the use of methods and technologies from machine … Continued
Simão Soares, SilicoLife CEO, was elected last June as President of P-BIO, Portugal’s Biotechology Industry Organization, for the period of 2019-2022. The new board led by Simão Soares, representing SilicoLife, counts with José Pereira-Leal from Ophiomics, Joana Branco (Biocant), Teresa Gesteiro (Pfizer) and David Braga Malta (LiMM). More info about P-BIO and its structure can … Continued
The paper “Comparison of pathway analysis and constraint-based methods for cell factory design” was recently published on BMC Bioinformatics. This work has contributions from SilicoLife together with researchers from University of Minho and ITQB-NOVA.
SilicoLife will be present at the BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology in Des Moines, Iowa, USA. The BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and AgTech is the world’s largest industrial biotechnology event for business leaders, investors, and policy makers in biofuels, biobased products, and renewable chemicals. The 2019 edition will be held in Des Moines, … Continued
The course organized by the University of Minho will introduce state-of-the-art metabolic modelling covering the full process from model reconstruction to phenotype predictions using those models. The course will focus on user-friendly tools for metabolic model reconstruction and simulation and experimental procedures to improve those models. The course faculty have expertise in metabolic model reconstruction, … Continued