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Welcome to the GFI Species-Specific Research Tools Directory for agriculturally-relevant animal species. The purpose of this directory is to compile research tools, reagents, assays, protocols, genome sequences, datasets, service providers, and other species-specific resources (when possible) to save cultivated meat researchers the time of searching for these products. By directing new researchers toward these resources in an easily accessible way, we may also incentivize the development of new research tools (commercial or open-source) by increasing demand for these tools.
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This resource is intended to grow to meet the needs of the community and to reflect the growing number of solutions available to cultivated meat researchers. We encourage contributions from the community to populate this directory with all existing relevant tools. If you have basic familiarity with cell culture research -- especially if you have worked with cell culture of a food-relevant animal species -- we encourage you to contribute to this database by submitting the linked Google Form to the right.Google form for edit requests
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While this directory is intended, first and foremost, to capture the few tools that exist for food-relevant species, contributors are also welcome to add information for traditional research-relevant animal species IF it seems likely that these species are similar enough to consumed species that this information could be useful for cultivated meat researchers. Ultimately, we intend to display these resources within the context of phylogenetic relationships so that researchers can choose tools from a closely-related species if the tools they desire do not yet exist for their specific species of interest. For example, while Zebrafish are not typically consumed as seafood, many cultivated seafood researchers may find themselves using Zebrafish antibodies, gene constructs, etc. in the near term. However, it is unlikely that tools for species like nematodes and fruit flies will be more useful to cultivated meat researchers than tools that are species-agnostic, so please do not include these in this directory. Likewise, mouse-specific tools are abundant and are likely of limited utility to cultivated meat researchers because so many other mammalian tools already exist for species that are phylogenetically closer to common food animals than mice are (few rodents are commonly consumed). On the other hand, tools for, say, exotic or companion animal birds may be more useful to add here because few tools exist for avian species as a whole, so a poulty cultivated meat researchers would be much more likely to try using these tools.
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This directory does not contain tools that are species-agnostic, that are specific to human cells, or that are specific to species that are very distantly related to common food species. The only species-agnostic information listed includes Aggregators, Service Providers, and CROs that may be helpful for cultivated meat researchers, as well as companies with specific products in Scaffolding and Bioprocessing that are can service species-agnostic research. Please only make suggestions for these categories for established companies and services, and products that are commercially available (i.e. not still in development). The purpose of this directory is primarily to collate species-specific tools that are directly relevant for cultivated meat research. As a crowdsourced resource, GFI does not advocate for any of the specific products or services listed in the database. While information will be screened, it is up to the individual user to verify the accuracy and ownership of the information for themselves before they use it.
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