# Viridos

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/synthetic-genomics/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Viridos, founded in 2005 as Synthetic Genomics, Inc. by J. Craig Venter and Hamilton Smith and renamed Viridos in September 2021, was a La Jolla, California synthetic-biology company that engineered microalgae genomes to produce low-carbon-intensity biofuels, running its algal biofuel program as a long-term research partnership with ExxonMobil. The company never published an API, a developer portal, or any machine-readable contract; its only public developer surface was a GitHub organization holding two first-party open-source projects - the AGPL-licensed sgidspace deep-learning protein annotation library and a sensor calibration app - alongside seven forks of third-party tools. Viridos filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the District of Delaware on 2025-04-14, sold substantially all of its algae biofuel technology to Breakthrough Energy Ventures II, L.P., and the case was dismissed on 2025-11-26. Its website has served no content since roughly October 2025.

## Kin Score — 3.3 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-09-02 under rubric 0.18.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 3.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 46.3 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Health**: 7.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 2.5 (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 | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

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

## Security (1)

- **Synthetic Genomics Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Synthetic Genomics Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Company, Synthetic Biology, Biotechnology, Genomics, Biofuels, Algae, Climate Tech, Life Sciences, Open-Source, Defunct

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