ZYMVOL launches ZYMSCAN, the fastest way to check if there’s an enzyme for your reaction

ZYMVOL’s new, free, online tool helps chemists know if a certain chemical process can be performed enzymatically, speeding up the transition to a better and greener chemistry everywhere.

The way many industries pursue biocatalysis today is not efficient. Trying to change a traditional chemical process for an improved biochemical one can be a difficult challenge.

One of the reasons lies in the inability to answer this fundamental question: "Can I do this reaction with an enzyme?". Instead, companies spend a long time going through the literature or getting help from external consultants, which often leads to many promising projects getting stuck in this first step.

To solve this problem, ZYMVOL has launched ZYMSCAN. ZYMSCAN is a simple, quick, free of charge platform that places users just a few clicks away from knowing if biocatalysis is right for their projects. Instead of spending weeks looking for an answer, users can input their reaction of interest and the tool will tell them if there’s an enzyme capable of doing it.

To ensure optimal performance, ZYMSCAN’s results are obtained through a mix of automated computational work as well as human curation. After sending in their request, the company’s proprietary Artificial Intelligence software does the search and rapidly matches the input substrate and product with an enzyme family. Afterwards, ZYMVOL experts take care of doing a final check on the information, to guarantee that the answer is as accurate as possible.

Headquartered in Barcelona, ZYMVOL has more than 6 years experience in the computational enzyme discovery and design field. In this time, they have completed more than a 100 projects and worked with clients from over 10 countries. With ZYMSCAN, the company aims at making the transition to biochemical processes easier than ever.