UMAMI Bioworks presents its Virtual Marine Cell

UMAMI Bioworks has unveiled its Virtual Marine Cell, the world’s first computational platform that simulates the inner workings of cells from marine organisms, including tuna, salmon, and eel.

In other words, the Virtual Marine Cell simulates how real cells grow, respond to nutrients, react to stress, produce critical compounds, and transport them out of the cell.

Among the benefits it offers are the ability to predict growth rates and optimize culture conditions, simulate immune and disease responses, improve feeding and nutrient strategies, model stress tolerance and temperature sensitivity, and identify genetic and metabolic markers linked to performance, stress, or nutritional content.

Therefore, this initiative will enable faster R&D, more accurate predictions, and a significant reduction in experimental trials in aquaculture, cultivated seafood, and marine bioactives.

"Marine biology has never had a computational engine like this. The Virtual Marine Cell cuts through biological uncertainty and lets the industry move with software speed instead of lab-bench speed," said Ashwath Bendre, Product Manager at Umami Bioworks.

At the moment, the Singapore-based biotechnology company is already in contact with seafood, aquaculture, biotechnology, and consumer-goods companies to test the Virtual Marine Cell.

Furthermore, UMAMI unveiled in October the world's first line of cultivated marine supplements under its Marine Radiance™ solution, supported by its ALKEMYST™ AI platform.