Today, we're announcing HoX, and also a $2M pilot contract with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to build next-generation biodefense technology.
Biological information has never been cheaper to generate. Sequencing costs have dropped by orders of magnitude, enabling a shift towards biology applications that look more like computer programs than laboratory workflows.
Yet the life science industry is stuck in an analog world. It depends on fragmented technology and services, where the ecosystem looks more like a staffing agency than a technology engine. Services are unreliable, hard to scale, and expensive to compose.
For the last two years, we've been building a system to bring software economics to life science services. HoX is designed for autonomous science and complex coordination across many sites. Our goal is to build an integrated platform offering the world's broadest and most scalable catalog of composable scientific and clinical services, effectively bringing the ossified service industry online.
In the future, you will be able to order thousands of services from one interface, with all results joined automatically into a single searchable system ready for software to reason about.
Our first major application is in biodefense. We're announcing a pilot contract with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, backed by the Department of War's Chemical and Biological Defense Program, to establish a next-generation biodefense system capable of detecting biological threats as they emerge. We are thankful for our USG partners and are excited for the future.
You can read about the pilot in a press release here🔗.
