Basecamp Research

Basecamp Research leverages its extensive knowledge of the natural world to create better medicines, food, and products for the planet. The company partners with R&D teams to develop proteins for applications in food, pharmaceuticals, and bioremediation. It boasts the most comprehensive and diverse knowledge graph of natural biodiversity and develops AI that outperforms state-of-the-art using proprietary machine learning methods. Basecamp Research supports global biodiversity in alignment with the Nagoya Protocol’s Access and Benefit Sharing principles and collaborates with on-the-ground partners across five continents for biodiversity protection. The company launched BaseFold, a breakthrough in 3D protein structure prediction, which is up to six times more accurate than AlphaFold2, and improves AlphaFold2 performance with a global metagenomic and biological data supply chain. They are building foundational datasets for AI in biology and collaborate with expeditions, researchers, and remote science initiatives to map microbial communities globally. Basecamp Research provides sampling kits for terrestrial and marine sample collection, ensuring all samples comply with the United Nation’s Nagoya Protocol. They partner with Protein Evolution, Inc. to develop novel enzymes for recycling plastic waste and collaborate with Johnson Matthey to accelerate the adoption of biocatalysis solutions. Using Neo4j’s graph database, they map Earth’s biodiversity and have won Gold at the AWS Software Startup Awards. Their global collaboration system links biodiversity conservationists with biotechnology companies, providing local partners with insights into microbial communities for research and conservation projects. Basecamp Research maintains non-exclusive biodiversity partnerships spanning 23 countries and offers a robust model for long-term biodiversity protection through global sampling partnerships.