Chris Leber, PhD

With the Earth at the tipping point for biodiversity loss, the importance of diversifying our biological knowledge and learning more about common species as well as understudied ones cannot be overstated. Read part 2 of this blog series to learn why at Shiru all sequences have value in playing differing roles in our discovery process and driving divergent avenues of ingredient discovery.

To find new functional ingredients for the plant-based industry, we've been hard at work growing our protein database of natural sources. While a database of 450 million proteins is certainly impressive, read on to learn why we think it's time for you to pay more attention to what is arguably the heart of our database: biodiversity.

At Shiru, data science is foundational in our efforts to discover plant proteins for functional food ingredients. Read on to learn more about what data science is and how we are leveraging it.