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I work in the research arm of a certain extremely famous hospital in a small town in the midwest, and once you guys get your histo package up and running, I'll

I work in the research arm of a certain extremely famous hospital in a small town in the midwest, and once you guys get your histo package up and running, I'll definitely check it out. It's a crowded space, but we're always on the lookout for the next big thing. I do wonder, though, about the wisdom of doing that sort of analysis in the cloud. Our projects routinely use several terabytes of images (we have about 150TB stored right now, most of which is full-slide images), and uploading them somewhere isn't just a simple fire-and-forget procedure. Cool analysis algorithms might not be enough to make up for the headache of having to wait for days on end for the uploads to reach the cloud.

mike210 6y ago
Hi! Michael here - one of the cofounders. That sounds great and would love to chat! What kind of tissues are you looking at and what are you trying to achieve? As for the size of data - it's definitely a tradeoff here. We're seeing more and more scientists already uploading their data to the cloud however. We even integrate with data stores like S3 already so you can hook into data you've already uploaded. We're also looking to build out a pipeline builder - where you can process images in real-time, so this would be less painful, as well as a Dropbox-like mini tool so data would be uploaded as you acquire it.