Taming Frontier Data Part 2: How to simplify collaboration between researchers and bioinformaticians

Pharmaceutical and medtech companies face significant challenges related to data quality and integration, which hinder collaboration among research teams and limit the potential for breakthroughs in life sciences. The lack of a unified, shared source of truth for data leads to inefficiencies such as redundant tasks and version control issues, complicating the research process and making it difficult to leverage AI for collaboration. Cellarity, a company focusing on a cell-centric approach to drug discovery, experienced these challenges with their file-based data storage system, which was unable to handle the scale and functionality needed for their work with large transcriptomic datasets. To address this, Cellarity adopted TileDB, a database solution that provides a single source of truth and facilitates efficient data querying and collaboration, reducing the data engineering burden and allowing their scientists to focus more on scientific discovery. By implementing TileDB, Cellarity improved data accessibility and computational performance, enabling more effective and streamlined research processes.