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BIOKEA // BERKELEY, CA

Biology, decoded in the public interest.

DNA barcoding, environmental DNA, and long-read genomics — from soil, water, or specimen to a verifiable, FAIR-compliant published claim. Run out of a 5,000+ sq ft Berkeley wet-lab. Built for the commons.

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BioKEA Large Data Collider — a circular editorial illustration of the compute + wet-lab collision engine
Fig · The Large Data Collider

Two strands of biology converge at a single spark of synthesis. Orbital tracks carry packetized data marks across an AI lattice of nodes; directional chevrons set the flow; barcode-like omics ticks frame the rim. The field, the lab, the journal, the archive — our instrument for verifiable public-interest science, from sample to published claim.

MISSION

The bottleneck in modern biology is no longer data generation. It is scientific storytelling and synthesis. BioKEA is an AI company with a wet-lab moat.

— BioKEA thesis

CAPABILITY · THE LDC

The Large Data Collider

A 5,000+ sq ft Berkeley lab housing an ONT Promethion 2 sequencer and a growing suite of extraction and prep automation — including BugPicker, our robotic specimen-picking bench. Designed as shared infrastructure with California Institute for Biodiversity.

5,000+
sq ft · Berkeley
2–6 mm
BugPicker picking range
sequencer live
Berkeley lab interior, operational
BERKELEY · 5,000+ SQ FT

ECOSYSTEM

What we're building

Aquatic eDNA and metabarcoding specialist illustration
Aquatic eDNA

Field to species

An aquatic eDNA specialist — sample collection, metabarcoding, and taxonomic identification.

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Editorial illustration representing the Large Data Collider — compute + wet-lab platform
The infrastructure

The LDC

5,000+ sq ft Berkeley wet-lab. ONT Promethion 2 plus ~80 instruments, sourced through Bay Area biotech auctions at roughly one-tenth retail.

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An open book and quill, representing scientific research and publishing
The suite

BioKEA Works

A connected suite of scientific software products for the full research lifecycle — in closed-testing alpha.

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ORIGIN

Founded in March 2025.

BioKEA — Biology Knowledge Exploration Assistant — is an independent lab and AI platform for biodiversity and environmental omics, based in Berkeley, California.

The team builds on years at the DOE Berkeley Lab network, in marine research, and in Bay Area environmental consulting. The Berkeley space came online in March 2026.

California Institute for Biodiversitymajor partner
San Francisco Estuary Institutecollaboration
Coastal Questcollaboration

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