Checkerspot Uses Geneious to Create Plastics from Sustainable Materials

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Checkerspot is a high-performance materials company that uses biotechnology to design sustainable materials starting at the molecular level.

Its mission is to develop more sustainable materials while advancing environmental stewardship. Fabricators and designers use the created structural oils to ...

Checkerspot is a high-performance materials company that uses biotechnology to design sustainable materials starting at the molecular level.

 

Its mission is to develop more sustainable materials while advancing environmental stewardship. Fabricators and designers use the created structural oils to improve product performance while avoiding the environmental impact of extracting and refining petroleum and other fossil fuels.

 

The comprehensive suite of molecular biology and sequence analysis tools provided by Geneious Prime are integral to the discovery, understanding, and use of new materials at the molecular level at Checkerspot.

Geneious supports data from a variety of different biological origins including genomic DNA and RNA generated in-house, as well as publicly available data from DNA and protein databases.

 

Additionally, Geneious provides a variety of different tools for assembly, alignment, relatedness, BLAST, annotation, and gene expression. This diverse functionality makes it a convenient centralized location to host the types of data and launch the different analyses that are required for Checkerspot to get more from their biological system.

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