A Decade of Complex Pipeline Migrations. Ten Lessons from the Trenches
Every research organization eventually hits the same wall: a pipeline that worked fine on a single workstation or a small on-premises cluster no longer holds up. Sample volume grows. A key contributor leaves, taking undocumented knowledge with them. Regulatory requirements evolve. Leadership wants results in hours, not weeks. Over more than a decade, BioTeam […]
Building a Sustainable Research IT Support Model for a Global Biopharma Company
Summary BioTeam partnered with a global biopharmaceutical company to design a sustainable operating model for research IT, spanning HPC infrastructure, cloud strategy, data governance, and specialist staffing. The company’s research organization spanned multiple international sites and relied on a single-site, premise-based HPC cluster managed with Slurm and Bright Cluster Manager, but research-specific IT needs […]
Building a FAIR, Scalable Research Data Platform
How a strategic roadmap, an objective maturity assessment, and hands-on automation turned a fast-growing genomics platform into a coordinated, long-term technology strategy. Client Academic Medical Center Engagement Type Strategy, Assessment & Implementation Focus Areas FAIR Data, Governance, Cloud Automation, CI/CD Overview A growing platform, outgrowing its own roadmap A leading academic medical center maintained a […]
Modernizing Trait Discovery Infrastructure for a Global Crop Science Leader
The challenge A global crop science organization’s trait discovery program had outgrown the infrastructure supporting it. Years of organic growth had left the R&D organization running a patchwork of internal platforms, including an internal discovery portal, a BLAST Portal, a Knowledge Base, and specialized tools for marker analysis, phylogenetics, and toxicity screening. Each had been […]
Rebuilding the Research Network for Agricultural R&D
The challenge A global agricultural R&D division was hitting a wall that had nothing to do with the science itself and everything to do with the infrastructure underneath it. Researchers generating thousands of plant and microbial genomes, alongside a growing volume of phenotyping and trait data, found themselves unable to move that data at the […]
Turning Community Engagement into Grant-Ready Evidence
A leading academic research institution engaged BioTeam to help strengthen a major grant renewal by gathering current, evidence-based insights from the research community its data repository serves. With a tight submission deadline approaching, the institution needed a credible way to demonstrate the repository’s ongoing value, identify evolving community needs, and prioritize future investments. BioTeam designed […]
License-Aware Cloud HPC: Accelerating Discovery with Schrödinger, Cresset, and Posit
Summary Computational chemistry software licenses are among the most expensive line items in a drug discovery budget. When those licenses run on cloud HPC, poor integration creates problems: idle licenses burn money, contention between researchers stalls work, and GPU-heavy notebook sessions run around the clock even when no one is using them. It’s not just […]
Research at Scale: Architecting HPC Infrastructure for a Leading Academic Medical Center
Summary A globally recognized academic medical center (AMC) for integrated healthcare and biomedical research faced a critical need to scale its data infrastructure to support accelerating demands in clinical operations and precision medicine. With well over 3,000 active clinical trials and more than 21,000 annual scientific publications, the scale of data production necessitated a platform […]
Schrödinger at Scale: Enterprise HPC Infrastructure, Deployed in Minutes
Summary BioTeam partnered with a healthcare-focused investment firm whose mission is to advance healthcare innovation by funding innovative, new biotech organizations. These organizations required an automated, secure, scalable, and repeatable cloud-based HPC environment on AWS for their drug discovery pipelines. The client needed a compliant technology foundation that could be deployed at scale across multiple […]
Building a Centralized Scientific Data Ecosystem at a Large Research Institute
Overview Researchers at a leading NIH institute were generating increasingly complex scientific datasets, and the need for a modern, optimized data infrastructure became a key priority to support their cutting-edge research. Scientific data was distributed across various Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems, external hard drives, and instrument control computers without network access. There was […]