Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ: TWST), a mid-cap growth and value biotech company, today announced an agreement with Lilly TuneLab, a collaborative AI/ML drug discovery platform created by Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly). Twist is a provider of antibody characterization data services for TuneLab, including for AbLab, an antibody developability prediction model.
TuneLab was created to accelerate biotech innovation by enabling participating companies to access AI/ML drug discovery models trained on decades of Lilly’s proprietary research data. Participating companies may use the TuneLab prediction models to more rapidly down-select candidate molecules. Through this agreement, users will be able to order antibody services from Twist using TuneLab preferred Twist protocols to generate high-quality wet lab data. This approach connects experimental data with AI-enabled discovery, allowing researchers to potentially accelerate antibody drug discovery.
“The quality of an AI model’s output depends on the quality of the data used to train it,” said Emily M. Leproust, Ph.D., CEO and co-founder of Twist Bioscience. “Twist has the scale and high-throughput capabilities to generate consistent and reliable antibody characterization data these models need to be trained on. Lilly’s leadership in empowering AI-enabled drug discovery and its impressive network of partnerships create a powerful ecosystem that brings together advanced models and high-quality data. Through this arrangement, TuneLab users can select preferred protocols to generate high-quality data with preferred pricing – both helping them to more efficiently select antibody sequences against their targets and contribute that data back to TuneLab for federated training.”
Lilly TuneLab is part of Lilly Catalyze360, alongside Lilly Ventures, Lilly Gateway Labs, and Lilly ExploR&D, which together support biotech innovation by providing access to strategic capital, lab space and technology, and research and development capabilities.
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At Twist Bioscience, our customizable solutions across the biological continuum raise the bar in diagnostics, therapeutics, industrial, agriculture and research markets.
We drive innovation with confidence, without compromise. Whether delivering oligos, genes, proteins, libraries, characterization data, antibody discovery solutions, or NGS workflow tools, our scientific expertise and exceptional customer experience help navigate complex challenges, all with precision and at the scale and speed customers require. By enhancing R&D efficiency at every turn, we give scientists more shots on goal – more experiments, more iterations, more chances for remarkable discoveries.
Together, we stand with customers in the relentless pursuit of progress, backed by enterprise reliability, to shape a healthier and more sustainable future for all. For more information about our products and services, please visit www.twistbioscience.com.
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