Turning Tropical Biodiversity into Biological Intelligence
KAA Biosciences combines computational biology, artificial intelligence, and the extraordinary microbial diversity of the Tropics to discover and design new proteins for agriculture.
What Needs to Change
From biological complexity to causal understanding
Every plant interacts with vast communities of microorganisms above and below ground. Understanding how these systems influence plant health and performance can reveal new mechanisms for disease suppression, nutrient acquisition, stress tolerance, and crop protection.
The opportunity is to turn this complexity into a new biological design space.
Our Approach
Causal Models for Plant–Microbiome Discovery
KAA builds computational models of plant, microbiome, and soil interactions to identify causal relationships and accelerate the discovery and design of novel proteins.
By combining biological data with computational intelligence, we can explore a vastly larger biological design space than conventional discovery approaches alone.
BIOMES: Amazônia, Pantanal, Mata Atlântica
Click to enlargeBIOME: Cerrado
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Understand
Model interactions between plants, microbiomes, soils, pests, diseases, and environmental conditions.
Discover
Identify biological functions and mechanisms associated with plant health and performance.
Design
Translate biological intelligence into candidates for novel proteins and next-generation biological solutions.
Learn
Use experimental evidence to continuously improve models and guide new discovery cycles.
The Tropics as a Biological Innovation Lab
The Amazon, Cerrado, Pantanal, and Atlantic Forest contain extraordinary diversity across terrestrial and aquatic microbiomes. This biological richness represents a vast — and still largely unexplored — source of functional intelligence that can inspire new solutions for agriculture and beyond.
KAA aims to transform this biodiversity into a foundation for computational biological discovery while supporting fair and equitable approaches to accessing and sharing the value created from Nature’s biological assets.
The Impact
Expanding the biological search space
KAA seeks to dramatically accelerate the discovery of biological functions and proteins that can unlock new approaches to crop protection, nutrition, plant health, and climate resilience.
Improve plant health
Strengthen disease suppression and crop protection.
Increase nutrient efficiency
Unlock biological mechanisms for nutrient acquisition and utilization.
Build resilience
Improve tolerance to biotic and abiotic stress
Accelerate discovery
Expand the biological search space for new proteins and agricultural solutions.
From the Book of Life to the Bioeconomy
KAA builds on a broader scientific journey to understand and make Nature’s biological information accessible for discovery.
Its roots connect to initiatives such as the Earth BioGenome Project and Earth Bank of Codes, exploring how genomics, computational biology, and biodiversity can enable a new bioeconomy—while ensuring that the benefits generated from biological assets are shared fairly and equitably.