Labs in CLOUDS. Robots Do the Research to Accelerate Innovation

Cloud labs are like a streaming service, but for lab equipment instead of media content.   Brian Frezza and D.J. Kleinbaum founded Emerald Therapeutics in 2010 to develop antiviral drugs. But they had to spend so much time troubleshooting the machines in their lab that they ended up generating tons of code to run their experiments automatically. Not only did efficiency ramp up, but reproducibility did as well. They realized that other labs could benefit from the virtual system they’d established, so they decided to sell subscription access to their equipment and software. Emerald...