Genomatica

Genomatica (which markets itself as Geno) is a San Diego, California biotechnology and sustainable materials company founded in 1998 that engineers microbes and fermentation processes to make widely used chemical building blocks from plants instead of fossil fuels. Its commercialized process technology covers Geno BDO (bio-based 1,4-butanediol, licensed to partners including BASF and Novamont), Brontide butylene glycol for personal care, Avela (R)-1,3-butanediol, plant-based nylon-6 intermediates developed with lululemon and manufacturing partners such as Hyosung and Sojitz, plus palm-oil alternatives and fragrance building blocks. Genomatica licenses its process technology to chemical producers rather than operating a software platform; as of this profile it publishes no public developer portal, API documentation, machine-readable specification, or agent-facing discovery surface.

Genomatica is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Biotechnology, Sustainability, Materials, and Chemicals.

Genomatica’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, and 13 more developer resources.

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13.0/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0

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CompanyBiotechnologySustainabilityMaterialsChemicalsManufacturingRenewableIndustrial Biotech

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Composite quality — 13.0/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 1.1 / 17

Commercial Clarity 3.6 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.6 / 11

Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.9 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.8 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

CustomerPortal

CustomerPortal

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

PressReleases

PressReleases

Support

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Website

Blog

BlogRSS

Careers

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Products

Products

Listing

Listing

DiscoveryProbe

DiscoveryProbe

Source (apis.yml)

aid: genomatica
name: Genomatica
description: Genomatica (which markets itself as Geno) is a San Diego, California biotechnology and sustainable materials
  company founded in 1998 that engineers microbes and fermentation processes to make widely used chemical building blocks
  from plants instead of fossil fuels. Its commercialized process technology covers Geno BDO (bio-based 1,4-butanediol, licensed
  to partners including BASF and Novamont), Brontide butylene glycol for personal care, Avela (R)-1,3-butanediol, plant-based
  nylon-6 intermediates developed with lululemon and manufacturing partners such as Hyosung and Sojitz, plus palm-oil alternatives
  and fragrance building blocks. Genomatica licenses its process technology to chemical producers rather than operating a
  software platform; as of this profile it publishes no public developer portal, API documentation, machine-readable specification,
  or agent-facing discovery surface.
image: https://www.genomatica.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/geno-brandmark-primary-RGB.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/genomatica/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: no-public-api-surface
specificationVersion: '0.20'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-04'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 3
  pass: local-v1
created: '2026-08-04'
modified: '2026-08-04'
tags:
- Company
- Biotechnology
- Sustainability
- Materials
- Chemicals
- Manufacturing
- Renewable
- Industrial Biotech
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/genomatica-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.genomatica.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.genomatica.com/news/
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://www.genomatica.com/feed/
- type: PressReleases
  url: https://www.genomatica.com/press-releases/
- type: Products
  url: https://www.genomatica.com/products/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.genomatica.com/contact/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.genomatica.com/terms-of-use/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.genomatica.com/privacy-policy/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/genomatica
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.genomatica.com/careers/
- type: Listing
  name: Forge Global secondary-market listing
  url: https://forgeglobal.com/genomatica_stock/
- type: CustomerPortal
  name: Genomatica product portal (third-party Agilis Commerce storefront)
  url: https://productportal.genomatica.com/
- type: LLMsTxt
  name: API Evangelist generated llms.txt
  url: llms/genomatica-llms.txt
- type: DiscoveryProbe
  name: Contract + well-known discovery probe log
  url: well-known/genomatica-well-known.yml