Pixelgen technologies is a company that develops cutting-edge technology for single cell spatial proteomics based on molecular pixelation. And of course, when developing state-of-the-art technologies, there are always challenges that pop up along the way. In the case of Pixelgen, one challenge that emerged was the need to develop a suite of software tools to support their new molecular pixelation-based products. However, there is a pretty large workload involved in development of the analytical pipelines, cloud operations, and front-end features that Pixelgen wanted to create. With limited in-house software engineering and computational biology resources, Pixelgen looked for a partner to support them in tackling these challenges.
And that’s where BioLizard’s Software & IT Architecture team came in.
Because BioLizard has extensive experience in software engineering and computational biology, our Software & IT Architecture team could provide flexible contractor support to support the teams at Pixelgen.
Over the course of this collaboration, members of our Software & IT Architecture team were truly embedded into the team at Pixelgen, to provide the flexible expertise that was necessary to create a bespoke set of software solutions and analytical pipeline optimization.
While working together with Pixelgen, our Software & IT Architecture team optimized computational pipelines, for example using nexflow, created a scalable Amazon Web Services-based computing environment in the cloud, developed interactive reporting tools, and more. They also built a documentation hosting website, to make sure that everything that BioLizard developed was fully accessible to the team at Pixelgen for future use. The result: scalable and future-proof software solutions that Pixelgen can continue to use to create their top-of-the-line molecular pixelation-based spatial proteomics products.
When asked about our work with Pixelgen, here’s what Álvaro Martinez Barrio, CDAO Pixelgen, had to say: