{"id":82706,"title":"🧬 AminoAnalytica – Next generation proteins engineered with *protein* language models","tagline":"We’re creating the next generation of peptides and enzymes using our proprietary pipeline, powered by protein language models.","body":"Hey everyone – it’s [Abhi Rajendran](https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhirajen/), [Adam Wu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/akhwu/) and [Matteo Peluso](https://www.linkedin.com/in/matteo-peluso-872b85199/)\n\n**Tl;dr**: just look at the pictures ;)\n\n# **💞 The A(mino) Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=82706\u0026key=user_uploads/1754946/96f298df-f236-4401-91d5-2ce61024e644)\n\n👨🏾 **Abhi Rajendran** – From Imperial College London to the Mercedes F1 Team, Abhi builds AI tools in data-intensive environments. AminoAnalytica was inspired by his computational bio master’s project and was the top AI x Robotics venture from Imperial in 2024.\n\n👦🏻 **Adam Wu** – With experience in academic and industry wet labs, Adam is now building his own. He has a background in materials science, tissue engineering and biosensing as a Thermo Fisher Scholar from Imperial.\n\n👱🏼‍♂️ **Matteo Peluso** – Bioinformatics PhD from the University of Zurich. His skills in biology, machine learning, and software development tie up everything seamlessly.\n\n👨🏻‍🦱 **Dr. Stefano Angioletti-Uberti** – Senior lecturer at Imperial, specializing in modeling biological and soft matter systems. He ensures models are based on the latest scientific principles.\n\n# **❌ Problem: better proteins are needed to accelerate global innovation**\n\n* Industrial and pharma companies prefer to use enzymes and peptides over harsh chemicals as they are more specific and sustainable.\n* However, natural proteins often lack stability, efficiency, or specificity for their desired applications leading to poor performance\n* Improving these proteins has been a costly and inefficient 'trial-and-error' process, where biotech companies randomly mutate existing proteins, test them, and repeat until success.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=82706\u0026key=user_uploads/1754946/afb4dbcf-6cc7-43e1-915e-609278e798fa)\n\n# **✅ Solution: AminoAnalytica’s protein adaptation platform, powered by PLMs**\n\n* Like how ChatGPT understands human language, our **\"protein language models\" (PLMs)** understand biology and can optimize proteins for industrial and therapeutic use.\n* This allows us to perform in-silico protein property prediction, eliminating the need for thousands of lab tests.\n* We’re transforming the traditional ‘trial-and-error’ method into an ultra-high throughput and rational process.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=82706\u0026key=user_uploads/1754946/65fb8e1a-d749-4245-adca-a0abc1ad8529)\n\n# **🤝 Any industry working with proteins can benefit from our tech**\n\nCurrently, we’re working on:\n\n* **Aquaculture feed** → enzymes for maximizing fish feed nutritional efficiency\n* **Pharmaceuticals** → peptide drugs with improved stability and specificity\n* **Climate tech** → enzymes for eco-friendly carbon capture\n* **Consumer goods** → safer enzymes for everyday products\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=82706\u0026key=user_uploads/1754946/30bf87a9-4ee8-49e6-a0ee-7f8dd85bf008)\n\n# **🐡 Get in touch with us!**\n\n* Upvote/share this post with your network and help spread the word!\n* If you (or anyone in your network) are as excited as we are about next generation industrial proteins and would like to learn more about what we’re doing, email us here - [founders@aminoanalytica.app](mailto:founders@aminoanalytica.app)\n* We’re also looking to expand **our advisory board** in the areas of aquaculture, fish testing, and feed manufacturing!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=82706\u0026key=user_uploads/1754946/908a3520-d234-4338-ad05-154aa3515672)\n\n","slug":"LVy-aminoanalytica-next-generation-proteins-engineered-with-protein-language-models","created_at":"2024-08-04T00:01:55.931Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T01:54:37.214Z","total_vote_count":138,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LVy-aminoanalytica-next-generation-proteins-engineered-with-protein-language-models","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=82706\u0026key=user_uploads/1754946/96f298df-f236-4401-91d5-2ce61024e644","company":{"id":29694,"name":"AminoAnalytica","slug":"aminoanalytica","url":"https://www.aminoanalytica.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f7d5463656052d09bd1bc697531992af867d844c.png","batch":"Summer 2024","industry":"Healthcare","tags":["AI-powered Drug Discovery","SaaS","Synthetic Biology","Biotech","Therapeutics"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/29694"}}