Bioinformatics for small biotech and academic labs

The analysis is the easy part.
We tell you what it means.

RNA-seq, scRNA-seq, proteomics, ChIP-seq, ATAC-seq, methylation and multi-omics, run end to end by a bioinformatician who reads the biology: what the results say about your system, and where it is worth digging deeper. Reproducible and fully documented, so the conclusions are owned by a person you can email.

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What we do

Running DESeq2 and drawing a volcano plot is the commodity part. The value is the read on top: we turn your raw sequencing or mass spec data into a written interpretation of what stands out for your biology and what to do next, not just a folder of figures. You send a short brief, we send back a fixed quote, and you receive a QC report, full statistical results, publication ready figures, and a branded PDF, usually within 7 to 10 business days.

Every analysis is reviewed and interpreted by a bioinformatician before delivery, and runs on a reproducible pipeline you can audit. You receive the code alongside the results, so the conclusions are owned by a person you can email. See the same report format on real case studies.

How we work

Not "upload data, get a pipeline output". We study the project first, and the biology drives every step.

Our method in five steps: study the project, analyze, interpret, stress-test, deliver the read
  1. 1

    We study your project

    Your system and its literature, framed into testable hypotheses.

  2. 2

    We analyze

    Reproducible pipelines you can audit, run end to end.

  3. 3

    We interpret

    What actually stands out, and what it means for your biology.

  4. 4

    We stress-test it

    Follow-up analyses and public data, so the conclusions hold up.

  5. 5

    You get the read

    What it means for your system, and what is worth testing next.

What we analyze

Every engagement is scoped to your biological question, run end to end, and written up as an interpretation, not a folder of figures. Fixed scope agreed up front; a quote comes back within 2 business days.

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Expert review

A senior read on results you already have: do the conclusions hold, and what is worth digging into next. The natural foot in the door.

RNA-seq (bulk)

Which genes and pathways actually move, and what that says about your system.

scRNA-seq

Which cell populations shift between conditions, and the programs driving them.

Proteomics & phosphoproteomics

Which proteins move, and which signaling pathways and kinases are actually active, not just which sites change.

ChIP-seq & ATAC-seq

Where regulation moves across the genome, and which transcription factors are behind it.

DNA methylation & multi-omics

Where the methylome shifts and how to read the direction correctly, or one integrated story across several omics layers.

For academic labs

Writing a grant? We make it more fundable, at zero risk.

We strengthen your proposal with real preliminary data from public sources at no cost, and write the computational arm reviewers now expect. The downstream analysis of your own data is scoped into the budget and run only if the grant is funded, paid from grant funds. No cost until it wins.

  • 1 · Free dossier
    causal de-risking + a real preliminary figure from public data
  • 2 · Into the proposal
    a ready computational arm + a named analysis unit
  • 3 · Paid only if funded
    from grant funds, no success fee, zero risk to you
Grant support flow: free preliminary data from public sources, written into the proposal, and downstream analysis run only if the grant is funded Ask about grant support
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Fixed scope and turnaround agreed up front. 15% academic discount for institutional emails.

How it works

1

Intake & NDA

day 0

You fill a short intake form (organism, sample count, contrasts, data access). NDA signed before any data is shared. Quote and proposal back within 2 business days.

2

Analysis & QC

days 1–7

Your data is analysed and, more importantly, studied. After QC you get a check in: if the design has a problem, we surface it before downstream stats burn the clock.

3

Report & handoff

day 7 or 10

Branded PDF report with a written executive summary and discussion, Excel workbook with full statistical results, figures at 300 dpi, and the pipeline code. Raw data is deleted within 30 days of delivery.

Deliverables

What you get, every time

A written biological interpretation

What stands out for your biology, what it means, and what is worth testing next — the read on top of the figures. This is the product.

QC report

HTML + summary table

Full statistical results

TSV + Excel workbook

Publication-ready figures

PNG at 300 dpi

Branded PDF report

Executive summary, methods, conclusions

Reproducible pipeline code

Snakemake + conda, versioned

NDA by default

Raw data deleted within 30 days

See real sample reports

Two case studies we ran end to end. Same PDF, Excel, and figures format every client receives. Download the full deliverables to see exactly what you would get.

All case studies →
Heatmap of differentially accessible chromatin peaks in VCaP cells, showing clean separation between DHT and vehicle replicates
ATAC-seq · 4 samples (VCaP, vehicle vs 1 nM DHT, 2 replicates each)

Androgen receptor activation in prostate cancer — ATAC-seq chromatin remodelling

How does androgen (DHT) stimulation reshape the open-chromatin landscape of prostate cancer cells, and can the driving transcription factor be identified from accessibility alone?

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UMAP of 27,146 mouse heart cells coloured by annotated cell type
scRNA-seq · 4 samples (Sham + TAC 2w/4w/6w), 27,146 cells after QC

Mouse heart failure time course — 27k single cells, 4 timepoints

How does the cellular composition of the mouse heart change as pressure-overload heart failure develops over six weeks, and which immune populations drive late-stage remodelling?

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About

Alessandro De Santis, founder of OmicsDesk

I'm Alessandro De Santis, a cancer researcher by training and the CEO and co-founder of SynMiR, an Italian biotech developing synthetic miRNA therapeutics for cancer. Day to day I run multi-omics target discovery: transcriptomics, proteomics, phosphoproteomics and mutation data combined into patient-specific signaling networks.

My background is in RNA biology and the genomics of cancer, built over years of academic research and peer-reviewed publications. That is exactly what OmicsDesk does for clients: not just running the analysis, but reading what it means for the biology, the way you would for a paper. See selected publications →

OmicsDesk brings that expertise to small biotechs and academic labs that need an answer from their data without hiring a full-time bioinformatician. Every project is run, reviewed, and written up by a person you can email, so the conclusions are owned, not just generated.

Get a quote

Email a short brief (omics type, sample count, the biological contrast you want tested) and a fixed quote comes back within 2 business days. NDA before any data is shared.

Request a quote

Tell us what you measured and what you want compared — we send back a quote and a plan. You upload data after the quote is signed, not before.

  • Omics type and sample count
  • Species and genome build (if known)
  • The biological contrast you want tested
  • Any deadline you're working against
Email hello@omicsdesk.com

What happens next

We reply with a fixed quote and a short analysis plan scoped to your question. Once the scope is agreed and the kickoff invoice is paid, we send you a private link to confirm the experimental design and hand over the data. No data upload before a quote is signed.

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