Custom assay design platform engineering

We build bioinformatics platforms that let scientists submit design requests, validate inputs, run pipelines with cost controls, track status with observability, and receive secure delivery of results.

About the client

The client is a global life sciences tools provider with a large catalog of custom assay designs and downstream delivery workflows. The organization required a self service experience for scientists and operations teams with clear governance and audit trails.

Business challenge

  • Scale design requests with strict specificity and sensitivity checks while controlling cost and turnaround time.
  • Unify public genomic resources and internal knowledge bases into one reference layer that supports fast lookups and reproducible results.
  • Provide role based access, versioning, and end to end audit.

What we built

  • Web application for submitting design requests, reviewing validations, checking status, and receiving delivery artifacts.
  • Service layer for long running jobs with queueing, retries, and cost aware execution.
  • Pipeline orchestration with clear stages, monitoring, and alerting.
  • Reference data preparation that normalizes public variant and methylation sources into one queryable store.
  • Observability with logs, metrics, traces, and cost dashboards.

Results

  • Shorter turnaround from request to delivery through self service and automation.
  • Lower support effort for operations with clear status and observability.
  • Better governance with audit trails and role based access.

Technology snapshot

  • Frontend single page app with accessible components and keyboard navigation.
  • Services layer with job queue and idempotent workers.
  • SQL database for metadata and manifests plus object storage for large artifacts.
  • CI and CD with staged environments and automated tests.
  • Dashboards for logs, metrics, traces, and cost tracking.