GlycoSpot ApS

GlycoSpot ApS is located in Søborg, Denmark on GlycoSpot, Østmarken 9. GlycoSpot ApS is rated 5 out of 5 in the category biotechnology company in Denmark. GlycoSpot is an industrial biotechnology company specializing in the development, production, and distribution of ready-to-use enzyme activity screening tools. The development of the chromogenic substrate and the assay technology started as a research project at the University of Copenhagen in 2012. We aimed at developing a high-throughput assay for initial enzyme screenings. In December 2014 we founded GlycoSpot and took the technology to a real start-up environment. Since then we have been continuously growing. Enzymes are essential components of many industrial processes and are increasingly regarded as attractive alternatives to traditional chemical-based processing since they are effective, environmentally benign, cost effective, and precise in their mode of action. There is a vast diversity of industrially relevant enzymes in nature (especially in microorganisms) and recent advances in nucleotide sequencing have enabled enzyme producers and academics to mine genomes for enzyme-encoding genes. However there is currently a serious deficiency in technologies for empirically screening the activities of expressed enzymes and culture broths. This has created a bottleneck in enzyme discovery programs. GlycoSpot assay kits tackle this bottleneck and unleash the potential of enzyme technology. The company is based on know-how developed at the University of Copenhagen (KU) and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and the founders have over 30 years combined experience in the field and extensive collaboration with academic and industrial partners.