--- description: Find out why Shiru ProteinDiscovery.ai is one of the best inventions of 2024 title: Shiru ProteinDiscovery.ai: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt30dbc602596e226c/698a8a2c47ca3804993c2a66/ProteinDiscovery-ai-Shiru-Data-Visualization-best-inventions.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Oct 30, 2024 # A Protein Marketplace by [Tharin Pillay](/author/tharin-pillay/) ## Tharin Pillay Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Pillay is an editorial fellow at TIME.  After decades of research, scientists have identified millions of naturally occurring proteins. These proteins can be used as ingredients in foods and consumer-packaged goods to augment taste, texture, and other properties, but surprisingly, we still don’t know what most of them are good for. Shiru, a tech-bio startup, has cataloged these proteins, and is using AI to predict their functions, before attempting to verify the results in the laboratory. In May, Shiru launched ProteinDiscovery.ai, an “on-demand” platform that allows customers, such as food scientists, to order samples “and do discovery on their own,” says company founder and CEO Jasmin Hume. These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094945/shiru-proteindiscovery-ai/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094945/shiru-proteindiscovery-ai/"},"headline":"Shiru ProteinDiscovery.ai: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024","datePublished":"2024-10-30T11:44:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T11:54:35.395Z","description":"Find out why Shiru ProteinDiscovery.ai is one of the best inventions of 2024","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094945/shiru-proteindiscovery-ai/","keywords":["Tech","E-Commerce","list","franchise","Magazine","best inventions"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt30dbc602596e226c/698a8a2c47ca3804993c2a66/ProteinDiscovery-ai-Shiru-Data-Visualization-best-inventions.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tharin Pillay","jobTitle":"Pillay is an editorial fellow at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/tharin-pillay/"}],"creator":"Tharin Pillay","articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt30dbc602596e226c/698a8a2c47ca3804993c2a66/ProteinDiscovery-ai-Shiru-Data-Visualization-best-inventions.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094945/shiru-proteindiscovery-ai/","name":"Shiru ProteinDiscovery.ai: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024"}}]}] ```