Dear visitor,

Are you looking for Caffeine, the SaaS platform for data- and model-driven strain engineering? Unfortunately, Caffeine reached its end of life around August 2023 😭. Below, you can find a screen recording of some of the strain design and data integration capabilities that Caffeine featured.

After the funding from the European Union (Horizon 2020) ended in 2019 (which financed its development and deployment from 2016 to 2019 as part of the DD-DeCaF project) and parts of the development team moved on to co-founding a startup in the gut microbiome health area, I kept the lights on for a few more years (which had been easy due to the great job the development team had done on the platform) with the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability kindly covering the hosting costs. It served about 75 unique monthly users.

Around August 2023, Google Cloud unfortunately deprecated some APIs that would have required some more serious work on the source code. At the time, I did not have the capacity to tackle the required changes myself. So, I had to take the platform down.

If you like what you see in the video, all source code is open source and licensed permissively using the Apache License Version 2.0. Feel free to contact me if you'd be interested in resurrecting the platform, I'd be happy to provide pointers. This repository would be a good starting point as it provides the means for deploying the platform locally (it suffers from a number of dependency issues though that need to be resolved).

Sincerest apologies for any inconvenience caused,

Niko (the last custodian of Caffeine)

niko.sonnenschein@gmail.com