Ginkgo Bioworks secured a four‑year, $47 million contract to design and integrate an automated phenotyping platform for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). The system will automate workflows from media preparation and cultivation to analytics across plate readers, imaging, flow cytometry and mass spectrometry, and will operate at BSL‑2. Ginkgo said the platform will generate datasets suitable for AI and machine-learning training and support the Department of Energy’s Microbial Molecular Phenotyping Capability at PNNL’s Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory. Company remarks and the contract notice emphasize modular automation, flexible software, and managed support to expand access to large-scale biological phenotyping.