Spotlight - Unlocking the Power of GDPx3 with Ginkgo Datapoints with Naina Kurup, PhD

In this episode of ScienceIRT, host Carli Reyes sits down with Dr. Naina Kurup from Ginkgo Datapoints, a business unit of Ginkgo Bioworks, to discuss the release of the GDPx3 dataset. They dive into what GDPx3 is, how it was built, the scientific and operational challenges behind it, and what it means for the future of biotech and AI-driven discovery.

What You’ll Hear:

1. Inside Ginkgo Datapoints – making biology easier to engineer through large-scale, AI-ready datasets
2. The GDPx3 Dataset and breaking down the data – from transcriptomics to high-content imaging, what’s included and how researchers can use it.
3. Behind the scenes of generating GDPx3, and how Ginkgo’s infrastructure and automation enabled scale and speed.
4. Cell painting and what academia, pharma, biotech, and startups all stand to gain from open access to GDPx3
5. Looking Ahead and where to access GDPx3 

Explore the dataset today on the Ginkgo Datapoints website or directly on Hugging Face. For partnership inquiries or dataset support, reach out via the Ginkgo DataPoints contact page or connect with the team on LinkedIn.

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• Science in Real Time: https://www.aracelibio.com/science-irt-podcast/
• Araceli Biosciences LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/araceli-biosciences/
• Ginkgo Datapoints: https://datapoints.ginkgo.bio/ 
• GDPx3 on Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/ginkgo-datapoints/GDPx3
• Ginkgo Datapoints LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/ginkgo-datapoints/