Company

Built to learn difficult molecular interactions directly.

Metric Biotechnologies is a molecular design company in New York City. We learn interaction models directly from target-specific experiments and use them to design biologics for the exact behavior the biology requires.

Rendered antibody with two antigen-binding tips, the binding interface highlighted in orange
Our mission

Single-cycle molecular discovery.

We are building toward lead-independent, single-cycle molecular discovery. Our goal is to start with a target and molecular profile, learn the interaction through one information-rich pooled campaign, and reach a validated candidate panel without a supplied lead.

One cycle consists of one pooled campaign followed by one locked validation panel.

Why now

The design bottleneck is moving.

Frontier molecular AI is becoming increasingly capable at proposing plausible binders. High-throughput experiments can now measure target-specific interactions across enormous sequence spaces. Metric connects those advances through biophysical modeling and target-specific training.

Science in practice

From published principle to proprietary platform.

Peer-reviewed work established the core inference principle behind Metric. Since the 2022 publication, we have built a proprietary target-trained molecular design platform that extends the work across campaign design, assay-aware modeling, molecular search, and validation.

We are now applying the platform with biopharmaceutical innovators across immunology and oncology, including a leader in TCR–pMHC therapeutics.

Nature Biotechnology, 2022
Prediction of protein–ligand binding affinity from sequencing data with interpretable machine learning
Nature Biotechnology 40, 1520–1527 (2022) ยท DOI: 10.1038/s41587-022-01307-0
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