# Delve Bio

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/delve-bio/  
**Website:** https://www.delve.bio  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Delve Bio is a genomic diagnostics company commercializing clinical metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) for infectious disease diagnosis. Its flagship test, Delve Detect, analyzes all nucleic acids in a single cerebrospinal fluid sample to simultaneously detect bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites, screening against a curated database of more than 68,000 pathogen species to diagnose meningitis and encephalitis with results in roughly 48 hours. The company is the exclusive licensee of the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) mNGS technology developed at the Center for Next-Gen Precision Diagnostics, founded by Charles Chiu, Joe DeRisi, Michael Wilson, Pardis Sabeti, and Matthew Meyerson, and backed by investors including GV. Delve Bio operates as a CAP/CLIA-certified clinical laboratory serving labs and clinicians; it exposes no public developer API surface. Added to the API Evangelist network as a gv portfolio lead.

## Kin Score — 12.1 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 12.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 19.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Health**: 10.0 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, Life Sciences, Diagnostics, Metagenomics, Infectious Disease, Genomics, Next-Generation Sequencing, Precision Medicine, Clinical Laboratory

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/delve-bio/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.