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Core activities Using this approach, Scailyte relevant single-cell data from
can identify molecular profiles the open domain for their
Founded in 2017, Swiss
(biomarkers) from specific analysis.
company Scailyte uses
cell types associated with a
single-cell data and artificial
disease. These biomarkers Open data resources, including
intelligence (AI) to identify
are of value for developing annotations, genomes and
novel disease biomarkers.
early diagnostic tools and may transcriptomes, play an
Unlike methods that capture
represent potential therapeutic important role in providing a
average measurements of bulk
targets. baseline for single-cell data
populations of cells, single-
processing. During this data
cell technologies generate
The company has raised about processing stage, Scailyte uses
data at the level of individual
€5.5M. The venture relies on several community-developed
cells, offering unparalleled
highly specialised knowledge tools.
insight into biological diversity
to make effective use of data.
between cells. Single-cell data
Of 17 team members, 65%
contains biomedically relevant Position along the value
hold a PhD in the life sciences,
information not captured by chain
and a third have a computer
other technologies but requires
science or bioinformatics Scailyte operates across the
innovative computational
background. entire length of the value chain
approaches to extract this
– performing data selection,
information.
pre-processing and analysis,
How do they use open
At Scailyte, single-cell data is data? and data interpretation to
fed into their proprietary AI identify profitable novel
While collecting proprietary insights. For Scailyte, custom
developed pipeline (ScaiVision)
data themselves and with data inputs are dependent on
to associate patterns in single-
research groups, Scailyte takes the customer.
cell data with disease status.
Value chain for data analysis Selection Integration and Transformation Mining Interpretation
processing

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