BIOVIA, a Dassault Systèmes brand and innovator for formulation design and development solutions, is proud to announce a new partnership with Shiru, an AI-powered ingredient discovery company developing its award-winning Flourish(™) platform, to focus on naturally occurring proteins and peptides. This collaboration combines BIOVIA’s generative formulation design solutions with Shiru’s proprietary databases and algorithms to identify cost-effective, healthy, and natural protein-based ingredients that become key parts of complex product formulations.
BIOVIA Generative Formulation Design
BIOVIA provides scalable solutions across Food & Beverage, Beauty & Personal Care, and Life Science segments. With a focus on (re)formulation, laboratory execution, and scale-up workflows, we empower scientists to generate new insights for sustainable and healthy products. Powered by proprietary AI/ML models trained on curated datasets, BIOVIA delivers innovative solutions for formulations, products, packaging, and processes.
Shiru Empowers Alternative Protein Discovery for Novel Ingredients and Formulations
Shiru’s Flourish™ AI platform uncovers naturally occurring ingredients for improved performance and scalability of sustainable, healthy, high-performance products. By combining AI-driven discovery with commercial validation, Shiru rapidly identifies highly functional proteins from its database, significantly accelerating the traditional protein discovery process from years to months. Shiru enables customers to leverage this IP for improved ingredient functionality (such as taste, texture, color, etc.) used in product formulation and scale-up.
The integration of BIOVIA’s generative formulation design capabilities with Shiru’s protein discovery for sustainable product innovation provides:
- A catalog of over 33 million natural protein sequences, enriched with performance data, metadata, and expression success
- Virtual assessments of protein function, solubility, stability, and compatibility with target formulations
- Optimized ingredient blends for clean-label, functional performance (for example, emulsification, gelling, structuring)
- Simulated degradation and shelf-life behavior under different process and storage conditions
- Leverages generative design to identify novel protein-material combinations optimized for specific use cases
This partnership enables a full generative design loop—from sequence discovery to formulation, where users leverage the power of AI to drive novel products to market faster in response to consumer demands.
About BIOVIA
BIOVIA is a Dassault Systèmes brand and leader in scientific innovation solutions for consumer packaged goods, life science, and materials science organizations. BIOVIA provides a scientific collaborative environment for advanced biological, chemical and materials experiences. BIOVIA solutions transform scientific innovation to help organizations discover and develop new materials and products to improve the way we live.
The BIOVIA portfolio leads the industry by integrating the diversity of science, experimental processes, and information requirements end-to-end across research, development, QA/QC, and manufacturing.
About Shiru
Shiru is transforming product innovation through AI-powered ingredient discovery, unlocking the next generation of high-performance ingredients that strengthen domestic manufacturing capabilities. In 2024, Shiru’s ProteinDiscovery.ai platform gained significant momentum, partnering with global leaders across food, beverage, skincare, and agriculture by accelerating ingredient innovation from years to months. Named a TIME Best Invention of 2024, Shiru’s technology enhances the products consumers already love, developing proteins, sweeteners, bioactives, and fats that promote product performance without compromising quality. With a robust pipeline of additional AI-discovered ingredients in development, Shiru continues to demonstrate the unmatched capabilities of its Flourish™ platform to transform ingredient innovation across multiple industries.
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Stephen Hayward is a PhD in Chemical Engineering, with a background in laboratory informatics, chemical modeling, and environmental analysis. Originally from Toronto, Canada, he currently leads product marketing efforts for informatics solutions at Dassault Systèmes BIOVIA in San Diego.