Ginkgo Bioworks Shares Rise After 4-Year, $47 Million Contract

By Chris Wack


Ginkgo Bioworks shares were 6% higher, at $9.76, after the company said it has been awarded a four-year contract, worth up to $47 million, by the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

The Boston-based company on Friday said the contract is to codesign, build, and integrate a high-throughput automated phenotyping platform in support of the microbial molecular phenotyping Capability.

Ginkgo Bioworks said the platform, selected through a competitive procurement process, is intended to enable the Department of Energy's Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research program to generate reproducible microbial and microbiome data. Microbial molecular phenotyping capability delivers a predictive understanding of complex biological systems relevant to DOE's mission, the company said.

The planned platform is intended to increase throughput and reproducibility of phenotyping campaigns across diverse microbes and consortia, Ginkgo said.


Write to Chris Wack at chris.wack@wsj.com


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