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Introducing Tracer (Part 1)

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INTRODUCING TRACER (PART 1)


November 21, 2023
We’re working in stealth on a new startup called Tracer. I wanted to share more
about the product, the journey so far, and the “why” behind it. Tracer is a
single platform that helps bioinformaticians understand if their genomics
software is working well and how to make it better.



The initial objective is to cut bioinformaticians’ time spent on resolving
errors by 75% within 2 years. We do this by building a new type of user
interface that enables you to resolve errors quickly, visualize realtime logs
and debug easily with a curated error database. The longer term plan for Tracer
is to build out features that solve daily software engineering challenges across
the biotechnology lifecycle — from tracing genetic payloads in the lab to
simulating 20,000 liter bioreactors in the factory.
Tracer’s key purpose is to accelerate the biology revolution in society. It
is estimated that in the next 10-20 years, programmable medicine can address 45%
of previously incurable diseases and that 60% of global manufacturing output can
be shifted toward sustainable biological processes.
Critical to making that happen is an effective DevOps infrastructure tailored to
biology. Unfortunately, software in digital biology tends to be error prone,
extremely tedious to set up and time-consuming to maintain. At the same time,
existing cloud providers like AWS do not have user interfaces designed for the
intricate nature of genomics tooling and biology data types.
As a result, over half of bioinformaticians’ time is spent debugging common
issues instead of driving innovation. This status quo is holding back
biotechnology advancements that could accelerate programmable medicine and
sustainable processes in manufacturing.
That is why we are building an easy-to-use observability platform that is able
to handle even the most distributed systems in the biotech and pharmaceutical
industry. Tracer is secure, scalable and streams logs in realtime. It has
powerful search and built-in connectors for common bioinformatics tools,
frameworks and platforms. Development of Tracer will start in early 2024 and is
being co-designed with a growing group of innovative beta users working on gene
& cell therapy and diagnostics applications.
Advances in genomics and sequencing technologies provide hope to cure previously
untreatable genetic diseases such as cystic fibrosis and certain types of breast
cancer. By making programming in biology easier, we can help scientists
accelerate that timeframe for such life-altering discoveries. Therefore, we are
super excited, and not just about what we are doing today, but Tracer’s
potential tomorrow, or the next year or the next twenty years.