Product Digest: Native Nextflow Support, White-Labeling, and End-to-End Flows for New Assays

We’re excited to showcase some highlights from the last month! Read on to learn more about new features that we shipped, the conference that we’re hosting next month, and a hackathon that we’re sponsoring.

⚙️ Product Updates

Nextflow Support: Host Existing Nextflow Workflows with Minimal Modifications

We released a native Nextflow integration to support the most popular language to write and scale bioinformatics workflows. Developers can now drop-in existing Nextflow projects, and configure their workflow in just 3 steps:

1. Generate a single Python file from Nextflow code to configure your interface

2. Modify or extend this file

3. Register the workflow on Latch

Latch preserves the portability of Nextflow code and prevents disruption to development flows with platform-specific modifications. 

Latch’s new tools to develop and host Nextflow allow users to:

• Visualize and explore the execution graph

• Optimize cost and runtime with live resource dashboards

• Associate workflow versions with Git commits

• Use secure, private container repositories

Read more about our Nextflow integration on our blog. 

Get started today with our Nextflow Integration Wiki Page. 

White-Labeling for Solution Providers: Give your Customers a Customized Analysis Portal

We launched a new product for solution, assay, and kit providers, offering access to a white-labeled analysis portal for their customers! Every customer can redeem a code to access a workspace customized with their raw data, a no-code GUI for launching custom workflows, and Plot templates for interactive tertiary analyses. Solution providers can fully configure all components of each customer workspace, allowing them to control and tailor the optimal experience. 

The customer journey looks like this:

They purchase a kit and scan a QR code and/or receive an email with a link that invites them to their custom workspace.

Once the customer clicks on the invitation link, they are taken to a beautiful, white-labeled portal for that solution provider.

The customer logs in, redeems their code, and receives a number of credits for analysis. They also see their raw data, workflows, and plot templates that the provider has specified for them (All these components are also customizable by the provider in their Admin panel).

Learn more about the customer analysis experience on Latch on our Solution Provider page.

End-to-end Analysis Flows: Run Bulk RNA-seq, qPCR, and ATAC-seq on Latch

We launched support for the full analysis lifecycle of some of the most widely-used assays in the biotech industry, including Bulk RNA-seq, qPCR, and ATAC-seq.

Bulk RNA-seq

Latch streamlines the entire analysis lifecycle of Bulk RNA-seq from raw data to final reports while preserving the upstream and downstream infrastructure necessary for collaboration, compliance, and future analysis. 

On our platform, both wet and dry lab teams can easily access:

Central and structured capture of sequencing data and experimental metadata.

Visualizations and reports that are accessible and usable by scientists.

Links between raw experimental data, bioinformatics workflows, processed counts, and final reports.

Start running your analysis today by reading our Bulk RNA-seq Wiki Page.

qPCR

Avoid hours of manually switching between error-prone spreadsheet formulas and clicking. Latch modernizes the full lifecycle of qPCR by allowing scientists to store, analyze, and visualize their data all in one platform

On Latch, scientists can use one traceable platform to:

Centralize and structure the capture of qPCR machine outputs and experimental metadata. 

Automatically and reproducibly compute Cqs + ∆∆Cqs and produce plots without error-prone clicking or spreadsheet formulas. After generating results, scientists can easily link between raw machine outputs, tables of Cq calculations, and final plots.

Start running your analysis on Latch today by reading our qPCR Wiki Page.

ATAC-seq

Latch supports the entire analysis lifecycle of ATAC-seq by offering a suite of tools scientists can use to interrogate their data within an infrastructure suitable for interdisciplinary collaboration and long term data re-use. 

Running ATAC-seq on Latch makes it easy for scientists to find the answers to key biological questions:

Compare peaks across samples with configurable, publication-ready visualizations.

Explore peak tracks with IGV.

Structure raw sequencing outputs with necessary metadata.

Start running your analysis on Latch today by reading our ATAC-seq Wiki Page.

🤝 Upcoming Events

PlotsAI Webinar: How to use LLMs for Deeper Interpretation of Data

Join our upcoming webinar on October 30th with our Head of Product, Hannah Le. During this webinar, she will walk through the entire analysis lifecycle of biological data on Latch, ending with a live demonstration of new LLM capabilities on Latch that empower scientists to create beautiful visualizations of their results.

Register for the Webinar

Data Infrastructure for Biotech Conference

We are hosting a one-day event in Boston on Monday, October 21st to bring together experienced engineering leaders to pool their collective knowledge on building and maintaining data infrastructure for biotech. We’ve gathered some incredible speakers from Recursion, Dyno Tx, immunAI, Ensoma and BigHat Biosciences, among others, to share their experience building and extending these systems to solve real biological problems.

Key focus areas include:

• Collaborative computational biology environments

• Dashboarding and plotting experimental results

• Large scale bioinformatics (100s of workflows, 1M+ single cell)

Register here if interested. 

BIO x ML Hackathon by Lux Capital

We’re excited to be sponsoring a BIO x ML Hackathon hosted by Lux Capital with EvolutionaryScale and Enveda Biosciences from October 10 – 20th! By bringing together the world’s top minds, they’re driving forward the next frontier of science with AI-driven tools and scientific imagination. 

Prizes for top teams include:

• EvoScaleAI, AWS, OpenAI, and LatchBio credits

• SynBioBeta tickets

• Light Bio Plants

• Feature in BioPharmaDrive’s Where Tech Meets Bio newsletter

• Special prizes from EvoscaleAI, EnvedaBio, RecursionPharma, and Polaris_HQ

Learn more here. 

Additional Resources

If you want to learn more:

Read our whitepaper on the tradeoffs between Building v. Buying software for -Omics Solution Providers. 

See our upgraded -Omics Solution Provider market map. 

Our Nextflow support announcement post on LinkedIn. 

Our most recent post about running ATAC-Seq on Latch. 

🪵 LatchBio Change Log