NEW YORK – Phylo, a biology-focused applied AI research lab, has raised $13.5 million in seed funding to support the launch of Biomni Lab, an AI-enabled 'integrated biology environment' for research labs.

纽约——专注于生物学的应用人工智能研究实验室Phylo已经筹集了1350万美元的种子资金，以支持推出面向研究实验室的、启用人工智能的“综合生物学环境”Biomni Lab。

The seed funding round was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Menlo Ventures' Anthology Fund, with participation from Zetta, Conviction, SV Angel, and others.

这轮融资由 Andreessen Horowitz 和 Menlo Ventures 的 Anthology 基金共同领投，Zetta、Conviction、SV Angel 等参与。

Biomni Lab enables scientists to plan, author, execute, and collaborate on complex research tasks with agentic AI in an integrated workspace, Phylo said.

Phylo 表示，Biomni Lab 使科学家能够在集成工作空间中通过代理 AI 规划、编写、执行和协作复杂的科研任务。

The platform is currently available in research preview, Phylo said. The company spun out of Stanford University's Biomni open-source research project, which Phylo said is currently used by more than 7,000 labs, biopharma companies, and healthcare organizations. Phylo said it will continue to maintain the open-source platform and community..

Phylo 表示，该平台目前处于研究预览阶段。该公司源自斯坦福大学的 Biomni 开源研究项目，Phylo 称该项目目前已被 7,000 多个实验室、生物制药公司和医疗保健组织使用。Phylo 表示，将继续维护这个开源平台和社区。

'Coming from computer science and AI research, it was clear that AI-native biology was going to require an entirely new approach,' Kexin Huang, cofounder and CEO of Phylo and first author of the original Biomni research paper, said in a statement. 'We built an integrated environment to unify the best of agent architectures with the tools biologists actually use, delivering extraordinary gains in their productivity, similar to what I've experienced with AI-supported software engineering.'.

“来自计算机科学和人工智能研究领域，很明显，AI原生生物学将需要一种全新的方法，”Phylo的联合创始人兼首席执行官、最初的Biomni研究论文的第一作者黄可欣在一份声明中说道，“我们构建了一个集成环境，将代理架构的最佳部分与生物学家实际使用的工具相结合，极大地提高了他们的生产力，类似于我在AI支持的软件工程中所经历的。”

As a use case, Phylo noted Biomni Lab's use by Ginkgo Bioworks to accelerate more than 10 complex cell-painting and transcriptomic analyses that were validated by Ginkgo scientists, reducing workflow times from weeks to hours.

作为一个用例，Phylo 指出，Ginkgo Bioworks 使用 Biomni Lab 加速了 10 多项复杂的细胞绘画和转录组学分析，这些分析均经过 Ginkgo 科学家验证，工作流程时间从数周缩短到数小时。

'Phylo's Biomni Lab platform is user-friendly for all scientists to automate bioinformatics analyses, generate publication-quality figures, and even compare results with external datasets,' Ayla Ergun, senior director of data science at Ginkgo Bioworks, said in a statement. 'At Ginkgo Datapoints, we hope to incorporate Biomni as an everyday tool in our workflows.'.

“Phylo的Biomni Lab平台非常易于所有科学家使用，可以自动化进行生物信息学分析、生成发表级质量的图表，甚至还能将结果与外部数据集进行比较，”Ginkgo Bioworks数据科学高级总监艾拉·埃尔贡在一份声明中表示，“在Ginkgo Datapoints，我们希望能够将Biomni作为日常工具纳入我们的工作流程。”

Huang cofounded Phylo with Yuanhao Qu, a former Stanford University cancer biology PhD student, alongside scientific cofounders Jure Leskovec, a Stanford professor in computer science, and Le Cong, a Stanford professor in pathology.

黄与前斯坦福大学癌症生物学博士生屈元豪共同创立了Phylo，同时还有科学联合创始人、斯坦福大学计算机科学教授Jure Leskovec和斯坦福大学病理学教授Le Cong。

Phylo's founding advisor is Malay Gandhi, ex-chief strategy officer at Benchling, and its scientific advisors include Nobel Laureate Carolyn Bertozzi, CRISPR scientist Feng Zhang, and computational biologist Fabian Theis.

Phylo的创始顾问是前Benchling首席战略官Malay Gandhi，其科学顾问包括诺贝尔奖得主Carolyn Bertozzi、CRISPR科学家Feng Zhang以及计算生物学家Fabian Theis。