Brightseed’s Forager AI platform for ingredient identificiation and development
Attendees then heard from Swati Kalgaonkar, director of medical, scientific and regulatory affairs at Brightseed, about the untapped opportunity offered by phytonutrients.
“Bioactives are all around us, and yet all of the bioactives that we know today, all of the bioactives that we consume today, study today, investigate today, barely, again, scratch the surface of the list of bioactives that are actually out there,” she said.
That’s where Brightseed’s Forager AI platform comes into play. The technology helps enable high throughput identification, not only helping to identify an index of plant sources but analysis as well. It’s also fed with the largest database of plant compounds, Kalgaonkar said.
The third component of the AI, and the most important, she added, is providing a curated model of human health down to mechanism of actions and targeted receptors.
“The Brightseed AI platform can not only help identify that target receptor but also identify the plant bioactives that may act as agonists to help rescue gut permeability or to help rescue gut restoration, rather,” she said. “And then the ingredient discovery timeline can be significantly shortened with the use of AI.”
