DIRINOC is a ready-to-use starter culture, developed from the client’s own strain.
It’s available on demand and ready for direct use in fermentation.
Our vision is to be a leading enabler
of the biosolutions urgently needed
to restore planetary health
Too many fermentation businesses fail
A ready-to-use, quality-certified inoculum
that enables simpler and more reliable biomanufacturing.
Starter Culture calculator
Estimate the cost per batch of DIRINOC® and the production days that could be saved by outsourcing seed-train propagation. Enter your working volume, annual batch count, and seed-train duration to calculate your DIRINOC® batch cost, days saved, and expected shelf life.
See what switching to DIRINOC could save you
Figures are indicative estimates based on Swan Neck Bio’s current rate card, your inputs, and internal production data from DIRINOC starter cultures in selected Pichia pastoris and Saccharomyces cerevisiae fed-batch processes, where strike volume is 40% of final working volume. Pricing is not an offer or binding quote and may vary depending on your seed-train setup, process, strain, and production requirements. Volume is priced at the nearest 1,000 L step; quantity discount is capped at 70 batches/year.
ORIP
Organism Robustness Induction Program
This is the development program, starting with the transfer of the strain,
and ending with an orderable, stable starter culture.
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Metabolic pathway mapping using a proprietary AI model suggesting best strategies for production of a stable, storable, concentrated starter culture
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Wet trials in the lab for optimal media formulation, propagation conditions, concentration- and packaging strategy
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Validation run using our FlexCell® production platform.
Quality certification and packaging logistics determined. -
Order your starter culture whenever you need it!
30 years in the market with yeast starter cultures
While we have decades of expertise in starter cultures of Pichia and Saccharomyces yeasts, our platform is agnostic to which microbe - we even do filamentous fungi. Wild Type or GMO.
Let us help you unlock microbial biodiversity in biomanufacturing.
Your needs, Our priority
Tell us about your organism, process, and production goals — we’ll assess the path to a ready-to-use DIRINOC® starter culture.
First there was a company that made yeast...
Swan Neck Bio is a part of White Labs - a global leader in fermentation since 1995.
White Labs’ pioneering FlexCell technology revolutionized the brewing industry by enabling yeast to be grown and packaged in the same vessel.
At Swan Neck Bio, we’re applying this single-use bioreactor technology to produce ready-to-use seed cultures of any microbe for biomanufacturing applications around the world.
Team track record
