Amina recently launched!

Launch YC: Amina: The Agentic Protein Engineer

"The AI-Native Operating System for Protein Engineering."

tl;dr: Amina is the first AI agent for end-to-end protein engineering – instead of wrestling with hundreds of fragmented tools, scientists can now design protein therapeutics through simple conversation.

Founded by Abhi Rajendran & Adam Wu

🎬 Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8Pd9BJcbQA

🧬 The Problem with Programmable Biology

The 2024 Nobel Prize for Chemistry went to AlphaFold - proving they can predict and design proteins like software. These biological machines could solve climate change, cure diseases, and manufacture anything we need.

But here's the reality: hundreds of new computational biology tools launch every week. Even expert researchers stick to the same old methods they know, missing breakthrough tools that could accelerate their work by months or years.

Meet Dave, your friendly neighborhood protein engineer 👨‍🔬

Dave is designing a cancer therapeutic, but his current workflow is broken:

  • Inaccessible tools → most have no UI, require specific hardware, must be built from source
  • Fragmented ecosystem → tools don't work together, requiring pages of glue code
  • Constant obsolescence → by the time he masters one tool, three better ones have launched

The result? Scientists spend more time debugging code than designing life-saving therapeutics.

🚀 Their Solution

What if you could just describe what you want in plain English?

Instead of wrestling with complex pipelines and staying up-to-date with every new tool, you simply tell Amina what protein you need and why.

Dave before Amina:

Amina GIF 1

Dave with Amina:

Amina GIF 2

🔬 What Makes Amina Different

This isn't just model hosting. Amina is trained on both scientific literature and their proprietary experience from engineering thousands of proteins for customers - it knows which tools to use when, how to chain them together, and how to interpret results. It's like having their entire computational team's expertise distilled into a single agent.

With their no-code interface, 30+ specialized tools work together seamlessly. Amina catches potential issues, suggests optimizations, and explains results in plain English.

🎯 The Vision

Their ultimate goal is for Amina to design proteins autonomously - think JARVIS, but dedicated to discovering breakthrough therapeutics. For now, it's like having an extra bioinformatician on your team that needs less care and attention than your cell cultures.

Learn More

🌐 Visit www.aminoanalytica.com to learn more.
🙏 If you work in biotech, pharma, or have an interest in protein engineering - the team would love your feedback on Amina.
⚡ Try it for free at aminoanalytica.com - no setup required, start designing in 60 seconds.

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Posted 
July 10, 2025
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