Building virtual life

Our mission, the people pursuing it, and the company built to do it.

—Vision

An ecosystem built together

Our mission is to model every living system, humans included, at scale. That's an enormous undertaking, possible only by combining everyone's strength. We're building the ecosystem that makes it real: whoever contributes, a model, a dataset, or infrastructure, gets rewarded for it.

—Leadership

Daehwan Kim, PhD

co-CEO, Founder

L++ lead architect. 80,000+ citations, including three first-author or corresponding papers each cited 14,000+ times; creator of the HISAT software series (HISAT alone: 24,500+ citations). Former Johns Hopkins postdoc and UT Southwestern assistant professor; PhD in Computer Science, University of Maryland.

Donghoon Lee, PhD

co-CEO

15+ years in cell and systems biology, 5+ years programming, L++ co-developer. Leads product, partnerships, and operations. PhD in Cell & Systems Biology, University of Toronto; former postdoc at Johns Hopkins and UT Southwestern, then instructor at UT Southwestern.

—Corporate

Company facts

Omphalos Lifesciences Inc

Incorporated May 2021. U.S. operations in Dallas, TX.

Omphalos Korea Inc · 주식회사 옴팔로스코리아

Korean R&D subsidiary.

IP posture

L++ models are owned by their contributors, licensed under the Life Code license, and open by nature, accessible through LIFABRICA. Software is Omphalos-owned and available for commercial licensing.