Billie Gene
Built at Google I/O Hackathon · May 23, 2026 · San Francisco, CA

Billie Gene is a rapid vaccine-design research acceleration platform built to reduce the early bottleneck in responding to emerging viral outbreaks such as Ebola or Hantavirus. Traditional vaccine discovery can take months before researchers have well-structured candidate designs to evaluate. Billie Gene accelerates this first stage by taking a raw pathogen sequence and running it through an agent-driven scientific workflow that produces research-stage mRNA vaccine candidates in about 10 minutes.