Case Study: Basecamp Research builds the world’s largest biodiversity knowledge graph with Neo4j

Basecamp Research maps 5 billion relationships with Neo4j

Basecamp Research, a biotech firm, faced the challenge of mapping Earth's vast biodiversity to address a fundamental knowledge gap. Their highly interconnected biological and environmental data was too complex for traditional relational databases, creating a need for a scalable solution to manage it. They turned to Neo4j's graph database platform, specifically Neo4j AuraDB, to build their knowledge graph.

Using Neo4j, Basecamp Research implemented a scalable graph solution that manages complex, interconnected data, revealing previously unknown genomic relationships. The result is BaseGraph™, a knowledge graph containing over 5 billion relationships that has already expanded the number of known proteins by 50%. Neo4j has been vital for these biotechnological breakthroughs, enabling the design of new proteins and leading to commercial successes, such as helping a client achieve in one month what had previously taken two years.

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