The engine powering connected lab workflows: Integrating Lab Work and Data Flows for enhanced productivity.
Walk into any modern lab, and you’ll see a sea of technology including automated workcells, electronic lab notebooks (ELNs), lab information management systems (LIMS), standalone instruments, and AI-powered analytics platforms. Each tool promises enhanced efficiency, richer data, and smarter decisions. Some offer specific lab-to-cloud connectivity solutions tailored to their individual needs, but this often results in a proliferation of point-to-point connections, lengthy implementations, high maintenance efforts, and increased complexity. Yet, when it comes to integrating all these systems into cohesive, intelligent workflows and data streams, many labs still find themselves navigating a patchwork of siloed tools and disconnected processes.
This fragmentation remains one of the biggest barriers to scaling innovation and improving reproducibility.
So what’s the missing link? A unifying lab operating system that understands scientific intent, orchestrates lab resources and data flows, offers comprehensive and secure lab-to-cloud connectivity, and seamlessly connects your lab with your broader informatics ecosystem. That’s exactly what CellarioOS delivers.
The Landscape: A Disparate Digital Lab
Life science organizations have made significant investments in both hardware and software, but many of these systems operate in silos:
-
Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELNs) such as Benchling capture hypotheses, protocols, and observations but struggle controlling and monitoring lab resources and complex end-to-end workflows from small to larger scale alike. Most require many point-to-point connections between individual lab resources and their cloud instance and support the exchange of data files only.
CellarioOS integrates with these ELN platforms to translate scientific intent captured in these systems into real-time lab execution and specific instructions and data capture for automated workcells and standalone instrumentation alike. Further, CellarioOS manages data flow, making sure that experimental data is passed back to the ELN and associated with the correct experiment for enhanced traceability and process safety.
-
Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) as well as sample management software such as Scigilian’s LIMS or Titian’s Mosaic are purpose-built to manage aspects including sample metadata, inventory, and compliance for specific applications like sample management, but struggle to be applied as a platform more generically across multiple scientific disciplines.
CellarioOS connects with these LIMS products to execute scientific workflows based on sample IDs captured in LIMS, and automatically updates those systems as experiments progress.
-
Informatics solutions, off-the-shelf as well as proprietary AI tools, process and analyze data at scale but often lack the context of the execution in the lab such as metadata and comprehensive operational lab data from raw experimental workflows.
CellarioOS can provide scientific and operational data captured in the lab in the context of an experiment to these Informatics and AI tools, enabling data-driven feedback loops that refine or trigger follow-on experiments.
-
Automated workcells from HighRes and other automation vendors execute high-throughput assays and physically automate some lab operations but often remain disconnected from informatics solutions and manual processing steps.
CellarioOS can drive and coordinate workcells regardless of the underlying scheduling software, creating a unified automation layer across the lab to meet any workflow and throughput need.
-
Standalone lab instruments such as HPLCs, plate readers, and centrifuges generate valuable data, but that data is often stranded on local PCs, shared drives or manually re-entered elsewhere.
CellarioOS captures operational and scientific data from any lab instrument, orchestrating both execution and data flow from manually operated devices to those that integrate via files, databases, or APIs.
Since these systems don’t naturally communicate, scientists and automation engineers are often forced to bridge gaps manually with spreadsheets, emails, or institutional memory. CellarioOS eliminates those gaps by connecting people, instrumentation, and sofware solutions to form a unified, adaptable central operating system for your lab.
CellarioOS: Orchestrating Instruments, Data, and Scientific Intent
CellarioOS is the piece that brings order to the chaos. As the orchestration layer for the modern lab, it sits at the intersection of scientific design, hardware execution, and lab data management.
How CellarioOS works:
- Drives Hardware, Seamlessly: CellarioOS is designed to control automated platforms and standalone instrumentation alike making it the universal hardware abstraction layer for your lab.
- Captures Scientific Intent: Rather than just executing robotic steps, with CellarioOS users can apply science by modelling end-to-end work and data flows, enabling better flexibility, context, and reproducibility.
- Connects Up and Downstream: It integrates with informatics solutions such as ELNs and LIMS to pull in lab demand and push out progress updates and results automating handoffs and removing bottlenecks.
- Feeds the AI Engine: By structuring experimental execution and metadata, CellarioOS provides rich, metadata-augmented, operational and scientific datasets that fuel machine learning models and informatics platforms alike.
- Builds a Cohesive Lab Stack: Instead of wrestling with integrations between instruments and software, teams can rely on CellarioOS as the middleware that makes everything work together seamlessly.
From Disconnected Tools to a Unified Lab System
When CellarioOS is in place, your lab becomes an orchestrated system rather than a collection of tools. Scientists can focus on designing experiments, not debugging integrations. Data flows effortlessly from instrument to insight and automation teams can scale operations without rewriting code or reinventing infrastructure.
In short, CellarioOS transforms complexity into cohesion.
And with that cohesion comes meaningful, everyday improvements:
- Scientists are empowered to utilize all of the workflows and resources available at their organization.
- Operators can run complex workflows without scientific context through a single software interface, removing the training requirement associated with dozens of unique instruments.
- Experiments trigger automatically when upstream AI models identify hits with no waiting or manual intervention.
- Sample metadata from LIMS is automatically routed to the right device and back, eliminating spreadsheet tracking.
- One interface monitors the status of every workcell and resource in the lab.
- Failed QC results trigger alerts or reprocessing steps without human oversight.
- Scientific and operational data is instantly available to bioinformatics teams already in context of the experiment and its samples.
- New devices are added within hours, thanks to the largest collection of available integrations and abstraction from vendor-specific quirks.
- Fewer scheduling collisions or resource conflicts across a heterogeneous equipment landscape commonly found in modern labs.
- Scientists no longer need to hunt through USB sticks, shared drives or emails to find where a file or result was stored.
- IT no longer supports a proliferation of point-to-point integrations. One orchestration layer handles it all.
- Onboarding new lab team members is faster with a unified interface, reducing the need to learn multiple separate informatics solutions and control software to just one.
These may sound like small wins, but when combined, they represent a fundamental shift in how modern labs operate successfully today and in the future. CellarioOS doesn’t just automate processes. It liberates teams from the friction of fragmented systems, turning operational chaos into scientific flow.
The Future of Lab Productivity Starts Here
As labs push toward greater throughput, personalization, and AI-enabled discovery, the cost of disconnection is rising. The labs that thrive won’t be the ones with the most instruments or software licenses, but the ones that can make it all work together.
CellarioOS is the engine that drives connected lab workflows.
Ready to take your lab from fragmented to future-ready?
Learn more about CellarioOS →