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Invert is built by and for bioprocess engineers and scientists. ?? That means that when we build our platform, we’re thinking about the same questions you are on a day-to-day basis. ?? We’re thinking about the challenges you face, from small annoyances to the things that would ruin your day if they went wrong. We’re familiar with the parts of the process that might have been held together only because of you and your team... ???? ...whether that’s all the time spent rounding up data from different equipment, ?? ...or digging through email chains to find graphs of results from months ago. All that work might be invisible to most, but it’s not to us. We’ve been there before. We know it’s not that simple. Follow our page to keep updated on how we're building a platform—with your process in mind!

?? The mathematician Richard Hamming once said that the purpose of computation is insight, not numbers. ?? But how do you go from raw data to new insights? At BPI West 2025, the answer was clear: contextualized data. As Sanofi’s head of Process Data, ML, and AI Platform, MSAT, Ramila Peiris, emphasized in his keynote: Contextualized data is synonymous with ready-to-use data. All of us at Invert agree—that’s why Invert’s Masaki Yamada, Alex Felt, and Jared Cochran were at BPI West in San Diego last week! We were so excited to demonstrate how Invert automates the process of generating contextualized data: ??? Mapping parameters from their source? ? ??? Data cleaning, aggregating, and organization? ? …did we mention it also handles the steps that come before (ingestion and integrations) and after (analysis and modeling) as well? ?? If you missed us at BPI West (or wanted to follow up!), and want to know how you can effortlessly generate contextualized data, check out our website to book a demo today!

?? You run experiments. They generate data. You collect the data, and analyze it to see your results. It sounds straightforward—but the gap between “collecting data” and “analyzing data” is larger than it seems. ???? When we say that bioprocess systems are disconnected, we mean that there’s no direct way to get data from collection to analysis. ?? Solutions to bridge this gap are often ad hoc, patchwork, and expensive to maintain. ?? Each gap between data collection and analysis is also error-prone—whether you use the wrong version of a spreadsheet, or copy and paste the wrong table. When we say that Invert is an end-to-end solution, we mean that our platform closes that gap entirely. Data is collected and made analysis-ready, instantly and seamlessly.

Is Invert an ELN? Or a LIMS? We get those questions a lot. The TL;DR answer is that Invert combines the flexibility of an ELN with the organizational power of a LIMS. Invert: ?? Lets you flexibly input data like an ELN would ??? Automatically organizes it into a standardized, searchable database like a LIMS — without requiring a rigid, predefined structure for your data like a LIMS would ?? Plus, it captures bioprocess data an ELNs or LIMS wasn’t built to handle In today’s blog post, scientific informatics expert and Invert engineer Brian Fan explains why ELNs and LIMS aren’t the perfect fit for bioprocess. Invert combines the most relevant features of both tools and solves their shortcomings — no total overhaul of your workflow needed. It works WITH your current systems (whether you have an ELN, LIMS, or both) to tailor-fit your tools to your process. Find out how in Brian’s blog post, linked in the comments below??? Like, comment, or repost if you found his insights helpful! ??

Join us at BioProcess International West this week from 19-21 March at the San Diego Convention Center! Dates: 19-21 March, 2025 Location: Booth #706, San Diego Convention Center, San Diego CA If you want to know: ? How to save hours of time cleaning messy data ?? How to ingest data from all your equipment and visualize it...in seconds ?? How to turn historical data into shiny training sets for a new AI/ML model ?? Or just never want to deal with spreadsheets ever again… Let’s connect at #BPIWest! Our software is built by and for bioprocess engineers and scientists, so we’re ready to talk shop—let’s solve your most stubborn data-related problems together. #BioProcessWest #Biomanufacturing #bioprocessengineering #bioprocess

Happy (pizza) pi day! ?? And yes, we're still buying free pizza for bioprocess teams over at invert.pizza. Rashmi and her team over at Aruna Revolution just enjoyed a little pizza lunch on us. If you're interested in the future of sustainable products for women's hygiene, check them out! We're proud to fuel them?– and many others?–?doing amazing work in bioprocess. And to answer the question many have asked: yes, it's real. Go grab a pizza (or four) on us!

“I’ll tidy it up later.” ?? Keeping track of all of your data is difficult. Wrangling it into a coherent structure is even harder. Some days, just writing it down somewhere is all you can manage. At Invert, we’re invested in better ways of managing data. We integrate with all your lab equipment to collect and structure all your data so you don’t have to. Lab notebook paper napkins? A thing of the past. ?? Do you have a story about less-than-standard methods of data collection? Follow our page for more discussion about the challenges of managing bioprocess data, and how we’re building tools to address them—so your data stays organized and your lab notebook stays napkin-free.

For the past year, we've been quietly working with McKinsey & Company and industrial biotech leaders like L'Oréal, Evonik, and Lallemand on a report that takes an honest look at the state and future of the industrial biotech industry. Today, we’re releasing that report. The report takes a hard look at the opportunities and challenges ahead for industrial biotech, and lays out a path for how we can all win together. The opportunities ahead include solutions to the most important challenges of our time: climate, food security, animal health, and many others. Scale, funding, and basic research are primary challenges. Governments are funding biotechnology aggressively –? but an actual, sustainable solution will require more participation from private industry and much greater scale. Read this report and share it with others. We appreciate all the wonderful folks in our industry who are working toward a better future.

We’re looking forward to “LinkedIn for the Biotech Job Search,” a webinar hosted by Benjamin McLeod and Christian Rados ??, this Wednesday at 12PM ET! Our sponsored event reached capacity quickly, and we’d love to gauge interest for another. Like this post if you’d like more sessions like this one, or leave a comment about other webinar topics you’d like to see! We’re excited to see Ben and Christian share their expertise, and can’t wait to see you there ??

“I’m sure the data’s in the cloud somewhere.” Data storage isn’t the same as data visibility. Think about the data you have distributed across instruments, software, research teams, and sites. What can you access at any given time? How up-to-date is that information? Would it be easy to make sense of? Invert doesn’t just store your data—it follows it throughout your workflow. New data is captured instantly, allowing you to view progress in real time. Integrations with all your software and hardware keep track of development, connecting upstream and downstream processes. Each and every run remains fully traceable, even as you scale production. Real-time data visibility: that’s why Invert's the clear solution on an end-to-end operating system for bioprocess. Check out our website to book a demo today! (image credit: Frank Schulenburg?/?CC BY-SA 3.0)