Biological Innovation Needs Biological Rights Management
At GitLife, we’re pioneering biological rights and IP management: the infrastructure needed to trace, protect, and commercialise biotech assets with the same rigour and control as software development.
Powered by two core technologies:
CellRepo®
Version-controlled bioasset registry
Genosignatures™
Encrypted DNA barcodes
GitLife ensures your work becomes easy to trace, secure to share, and ready to license, without losing control or context.
CellRepo
The Bioasset Registry with Version Control
The Bioasset Registry with Version Control
A Git-style digital platform for registering, tracking, and version-controlling engineered strains, constructs, and protocols. Built to replace ad hoc folders, spreadsheets, and institutional memory.
Key Capabilities:
- Register engineered bioassets with globally unique IDs
- Assign physical barcodes for sample traceability
- Version-control every edit, fork, and merge — just like Git
- Attach protocols, metadata, data files, and usage restrictions
- Maintain full audit trails and user attribution for reproducibility and IP protection
“CellRepo gives you the control and clarity of software versioning — but for living systems”
Genosignatures
DNA-Level Barcoding for IP Traceability
DNA-Level Barcoding for IP Traceability
Genosignatures embed encrypted DNA barcodes into engineered organisms, cryptographically linking them to their CellRepo records. It’s the missing link between physical samples and digital IP.
Safe by Design
To ensure no interference with genetic elements or cellular metabolism, Genosignatures are inserted at neutral genomic sites— identified to support safe and precise integration.
Key Capabilities:
- Embed unique, encrypted DNA identifiers into host organisms
- Validate biological provenance in the lab or field
- Detect IP misuse or unauthorised transfer
- Enable secure licensing, distribution, and downstream control
- Compatible with modular genetic designs and common host systems
“Genosignatures turn your engineered strains into verifiable, ownable IP — even outside your lab”
Your Biology Control IP
How It Works:
Register Bioassets on CellRepo
- Start strong—define your project, set its goals, and create structured entries for each bioasset
Track Every Change
- Stay in control—capture every modification with Git-style version control for full transparency. See every edit, fork, merge, and contributor — and recover older versions at any time
Commit your development
- Secure your innovation—Commit key results to create secure records at development milestones
Embed Genosignatures
- Link your biology—Select high-value strains and embed Genosignatures to link your biological materials directly to their digital records in CellRepo
Manage access rights
- Share securely—Tag assets with license terms, usage restrictions, and field-of-use rights. Stay compliant and audit-ready — even across collaborators
Benefits
For Heads of Synthetic Biology
- Avoid duplication across teams
- Understand lineage and experimental forks at a glance
- Package and share IP internally or externally with confidence
For Commercial Leads
- Track licensing status across assets
- Instantly verify what’s ready for licensing or sublicensing
- Ensure compliance with field-of-use restrictions and deal terms
For Biotech Start-ups
- Build IP structure from day one — not when it’s too late
- Avoid value leakage through unclear ownership or missing data
- Impress investors with clean, transparent IP workflows
For Scientists
- Avoid repeating experiments due to lost or inconsistent records
- Understand the history of every strain, construct, and protocol
- Document your contributions clearly and automatically
- Share work securely with collaborators without losing credit or context
Biosecurity by Design
At GitLife, we believe that biosecurity isn’t a regulatory checkbox, it’s a product design principle.
By embedding version control, traceability, and barcoding directly into synthetic biology workflows, we help teams ensure responsible innovation at every stage.
“You can’t secure what you can’t track. GitLife makes biosecurity practical, enforceable, and future-proof.”
With CellRepo, every strain, construct, and protocol is logged and attributable — creating a verifiable audit trail for regulators, partners, and internal compliance.
Genosignatures allow physical samples to be tied directly to their digital records, providing a cryptographic link between what’s in the lab and what’s on the record.
By knowing exactly who built what, where it went, and how it’s licensed, GitLife helps prevent unauthorised reuse, accidental release, or unlicensed applications.
Our platform is designed with future biosecurity frameworks in mind, helping teams stay ahead of regulation while enabling safer innovation.
Are your bioassets as clear and secure as they should be?
Let’s talk about how CellRepo and Genosignatures can support your team’s efficiency and IP security.
