We want research to be conducted from web browsers, not lab benches.

Alex and I met while we were both stuck in the gap between biology research and computing.

I first became interested in biology research while doing bioinformatics work at UNC Charlotte, where I studied software engineering and tinkered with NLP programs. I would later to move to the wet lab, to work on a minimal cell project at Caltech, where I studied bioengineering. I was struck by the differences between experimentation and programming- programming meant focusing on problems, whereas biology research meant focusing on processes.

Alex spent 6 years across different labs across biology, coming to Caltech from a specialized bioengineering high school in Arizona. After she was exposed to lab automation at the New York Stem Cell Foundation, she couldn't go back to the bench. Software engineering provided her a better way to iterate on ideas than biology did. Alex has since returned to the lab to collapse this gap.

Together, we have built a dream team to standardize & automate the process of experimentation. We want researchers to focus on their science, not the tedious & unreliable effort we associate with experimentation today.

Alex and I are aspiring researchers who became interested in software and automation, not software engineers or roboticists that became interested in science. We love research & think that the thing that we can do to benefit it most is to standardize experimentation, and make it accessible to as many people as possible.

The cloud lab is the future, and solving the process of automation engineering is the key that unlocks the door to tomorrow. At long last, we will finally be able to program experimentation.

- Cristian