Infera

Infera describes itself as the operating system for the laboratory. It is an early stage product from a company backed by Y Combinator that turns an experiment description or an existing methods document into a protocol a lab instrument can run, then keeps a record of what happened. The core flow shown on the site is to describe the experiment, compile the run and review what the lab should execute. The demo parses a methods document, resolves ambiguous wording such as a standard cycling step, and validates the resulting deck and volumes with checks like collision detection before anything runs. Steps are orchestrated for liquid handling hardware and exported to the instrument, with human review kept in the loop and a signed audit trail written for each run. The vendor lists protocol validation, experiment preview, lab ordering and data analysis as the areas it covers end to end, and it publishes a research section called BioBase. It is aimed at research and biotech laboratories that run repeatable wet lab work on automated liquid handlers and want to cut the manual effort of writing and checking protocols. The vendor is open about the stage of the product, stating that the current demo is early while the core flow is concrete. Pricing is not published. Prospective customers are directed to a contact form rather than a signup flow.