19 – Leveraging Neo4j to Create a Sustainable Partnership-Based Metagenomic Supply Chain

Session type: Lightning Talk

Abstract: At Basecamp Research, we believe that biodiversity is our greatest asset, and that it should be valued as such. Through biotechnology, biodiversity offers the first credible chance to wean our world from petrochemistry towards a cleaner, biochemistry-based future. We are building a bridge between biodiversity and the bioeconomy – transforming the connection between these communities. By doing this, we are creating a new, nature-based value chain that simultaneously promotes protection of the Earth’s wild places and provides the building blocks for a cleaner, healthier, and more sustainable future for all. We use Neo4j to draw links between the genomic and taxonomic contents of samples, collected from around the world, to allow discovery of commercially valuable products for the bioeconomy that are identified through our ML pipeline and graph algorithms. With Neo4j, we help ensure that the benefits from these products flow back to the stakeholder communities and guardians of biodiversity.