Latch: A Bio Development Framework for Data-Driven Biotechs
The unsustainable state of data infrastructure in biotech, why biodevelopers need their own development framework, an initial design spec, and how to get started with Latch.
While the growth of biological data over the last ten years has been astounding and has fueled new therapies, drugs, and our fundamental understanding of life, the ever growing amount of data has also become a bottleneck for new discoveries. This new scale of data requires a complex data infrastructure that biodevelopers (bioinformaticians and computational biologists) are spending more and more of their time maintaining, thus spending less time on the data analysis that will lead to new breakthroughs. We propose a Bio Development Framework that makes managing complex biological data…
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