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Last Updated: 04/06/2026

Phenotypeca

Nottingham
Founded 2018
Yeast strain engineering platform for recombinant protein biomanufacturing

Phenotypeca is a synthetic biology company that engineers baker's yeast strains for the production of recombinant proteins, biosimilars, and vaccine antigens.

Using proprietary quantitative trait loci technology, the company generates and screens large libraries of yeast variants to identify production strains with optimal manufacturing phenotypes.

Applications span biopharmaceutical manufacturing, vaccine antigen supply, and diagnostic protein production.

Phenotypeca operates laboratories at BioCity Nottingham and the University of Nottingham's Synthetic Biology Research Centre.

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