The concept of an agile bioinformatics consulting company was initially conceived by three trailblazers in the bioinformatics world. Wim Van Criekinge, a professor in computational biology in University of Ghent, Gerben Menschaert, the faculty member of the same university, and Jan Van den Berghe, an entrepreneur and a close friend of Wim.

They realised that there are so many unanswered questions in the biological world, and genuinely believe that using the right tools such as bioinformatics, biostatistics, machine learning, and AI, many of these problems can be solved. This led to the birth of BioLizard, a team of experienced bioengineers and computer science experts highly skilled in a full range of bioinformatics areas.