January 10, 2022 — With immuno-oncology assets progressing in the clinic, a growing biotechnology company we work with faces an increasingly common challenge:

Their trials are generating large datasets across a wide range of assay modalities (Figure 1), but the data remains siloed.

In addition to clinical data coming from the clinical research organization (CRO), the velocity of data coming from an assay services laboratory continuously delivering biomarker data from flow cytometry, immunohistochemistry, and genomics platforms quickly becomes overwhelming. Still another, separate data stream comes from a specialty laboratory delivering T-cell receptor (TCR) profiling data.