# Ginkgo Bioworks

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

Ginkgo Bioworks is a synthetic biology company founded in 2008 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, that builds a horizontal platform for programming biology. Through autonomous laboratories, foundry services, and AI-powered tools, Ginkgo automates the design-build-test cycle of biological engineering for customers across biopharma, agriculture, industrial biotech, and biosecurity. Its offerings include Build-Your-Own-Lab automation hardware and software, a remotely accessible Cloud Lab, Ginkgo Datapoints screening and data services, Foundry cell-engineering services, and the Catalyst autonomous lab agent. Ginkgo Bioworks (NYSE: DNA) does not currently publish a public self-service developer API; this profile tracks the company's identity and web properties in the API Evangelist network.

## Kin Score — 9.9 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 9.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 2.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Health**: 17.5 (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).

## Security (1)

- **Ginkgo Bioworks Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Synthetic Biology, Biotechnology, Cell Programming, Lab Automation, Bioengineering, Life Sciences, Foundry

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