Emerald Cloud Lab
Emerald Cloud Labs is a privately-owned biotech startup. The company is among the first to offer remote, automated laboratory testing, and was the first in the chemistry space[1]. DJ Kleinbaum and Brian Frezza founded Emerald Cloud Labs in 2010 [2] as an attempt to take advantage of automation, maximizing
- "in Mountain View, California"
- "creating faster and cheaper drug experiments by putting them in the cloud"
- cofounder is DJ Kleinbaum / "Founders Kleinbaum and Brian Frezza"
- "grew out of Silicon Valley biotech startup Emerald Therapeutics"
- outside influence: “We looked at what other industries had done and asked what is different from DNA sequencing and biosynthesis that is different from other bio?”
- " With $2.5 million worth of equipment and 5,000 square feet of space, the whole operation now runs on Wolfram Language."
- easily reproducible, vs: "big pharma like Bayer can’t even get very good consistency"
- "now opening up its cloud lab to other research firms." (July 2014)
- "Founders Fund, PayPal co-founder Max Levchin and Schooner Capital supported the lab in the latest round of financing for a total of $13.5 million."
- "ontology-indexed database that will be accessible in the cloud" to allow "similar experiment" lookup
- "The goal, says Kleinbaum, “is to be the Amazon Web Services of wet lab experiments.”"
- "Outside researchers will be able to order up to 40 of the major in vitro molecular and cellular biology experiments using the robotic equipment at ECL. The plan is to expand to hundreds of other experiments in the next 18 months."
- 40+ types of experiment; $3 million worth of lab equipment; equipment includes DNA synthesizers, advanced microscopes and mass spectrometers
- 15,000-square-foot facility
- DNAnexus provides cloud storage + analysis of DNA sequences, but ONLY the data
- Transcriptic provides an automated+controlled lab, but only for ~20 experiments
- average cost per experiment is $25
- "Having reproducible results isn't the only potential boon from labs in the cloud. There's also a financial advantage, since modern labs buy equipment costing anywhere from $100,000 to $240,000 per piece, which they use for perhaps 10 percent of their research."
- founded in 2010
- "DJ Kleinbaum, Emerald's other co-founder and co-CEO. Best friends since grade school, Kleinbaum holds a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Stanford University; Frezza earned his Ph.D. in chemical biology from The Scripps Research Institute. "
References
- ^ Mouratidis, Yiannis. "A Cloud Lab Dedicated To Cancer Drug Discovery". Forbes. Archived from the original on 28 February 2018. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
{{cite web}}:|archive-date=/|archive-url=timestamp mismatch; 28 February 2019 suggested (help) - ^ Garner, Rochelle. "Science labs in the cloud: Champagne discoveries, beer budget". Cnet. Archived from the original on 28 October 2015. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
- ^ Buhr, Sarah. "Experimenting with Drugs in the Cloud". TechCrunch. Archived from the original on 11 July 2014. Retrieved 29 October 2019.