AI

Scientific AI starts with
the data underneath it

Every instrument, ELN, and LIMS in your organization generates scientific data in its own format — and none of it talks to anything else. That fragmentation isn't just an IT problem. It's the reason AI models trained on pharma data underperform, and why the same workflows get rebuilt from scratch every time a new team inherits a project.

Tetra OS is the operating system for scientific intelligence. It converts raw scientific data into AI-ready assets, productizes validated workflows so knowledge compounds instead of resets, and gives your data science and AI teams something they can actually work with.

What's missing from your AI stack

AI models are only as good as the data they're trained on. In most pharma and biotech organizations, that data is fragmented across hundreds of instruments, siloed in ELNs, and encoded in formats that weren't designed to be machine-readable.

The result: AI initiatives stall in data prep, models get built on incomplete training sets, and scientific knowledge resets with every program handoff.

Tetra OS addresses this at the architecture level — not as a workaround, but as the foundation.

How Tetra OS works

Data replatforming

Provide access to large-scale, liquid, and high-quality data required for AI that traditionally is not available to data scientists.

Scientific validation

Trust your predictions with scientific explanations and comprehensible process steps, removing “black-box” models.

Data engineering

Embed domain knowledge into your scientific data through science-enriched taxonomies and ontologies.

Continuous improvement

Improve your models through continuous model re-validation, re-training, and scientist interaction (human-in-the-loop).

Build a high-throughput Scientific AI Factory

Generate AI-based scientific outcomes at a high pace with our Scientific AI Factory model, enabled by the Tetra Scientific Data and AI Platform.

Rapidly prototype Scientific AI outcomes through a collaboration with your internal AI and data science teams and Tetra Sciborgs.

Easily prioritize and productize final scientific AI outcomes.

Scientific AI use cases

Scientific AI is bringing unprecedented value to life sciences across the value chain. Here are three customer examples:

Use cases

Single parameter IC50 assay optimization—ML-guided concentration sampling reducing number of sampling points

Modeling of in-vitro ADME (QSAR) to predict interactions between samples and drug transporter/drug metabolizing enzyme

Input

Plate reader data

Assay data from ELN

Well configuration

Reagent information

Molecular structure

Omics data

Scientific outcome

29% reduction of experiments

Faster drug discovery through continuous feedback loops combining the virtual (cheminformatics) and real (ADME tests)

Prediction of:

Viable cell density

Glycosylation

Titer

Aggregation

Cell viability

Charge variants

Input

Instrument & sensor data

Raw material characterization

Mechanistic understanding

Scientific outcome

8x reduction of bioreactor runs per study

In silico prediction to suggest new media mixtures

Prediction of:

Prediction of deviations

AI-assisted root cause analysis

Input

Instrument data

Audit trails

Out of trend reports

Scientific outcome

80% reduced number of deviations

90% faster investigation closure times

200% boost in lab productivity

ADME-Tox studies in drug discovery

Use cases

Single parameter IC50 assay optimization—ML-guided concentration sampling reducing number of sampling points

Modeling of in-vitro ADME (QSAR) to predict interactions between samples and drug transporter/drug metabolizing enzyme

Input

Plate reader data

Assay data from ELN

Well configuration

Reagent information

Molecular structure

Omics data

Scientific outcome

29% reduction of experiments

Faster drug discovery through continuous feedback loops combining the virtual (cheminformatics) and real (ADME tests)

AI for upstream bioprocess optimization

Prediction of:

Viable cell density

Glycosylation

Titer

Aggregation

Cell viability

Charge variants

Input

Instrument & sensor data

Raw material characterization

Mechanistic understanding

Scientific outcome

8x reduction of bioreactor runs per study

In silico prediction to suggest new media mixtures

AI for digital quality control

Prediction of:

Prediction of deviations

AI-assisted root cause analysis

Input

Instrument data

Audit trails

Out of trend reports

Scientific outcome

80% reduced number of deviations

90% faster investigation closure times

200% boost in lab productivity

Benefit from AI in every stage of the pharma value chain

Research

Improve target discovery by mining diverse data sets. Increase the speed and accuracy of in silico molecule screening. Explore a broader chemical space to aid de novo design. Uncover new targets for known drugs by modeling drug and protein interactions.

Development

Improve accuracy of predicting how drugs will behave in human subjects, eliminating unfavorable candidates earlier in development. Accelerate formulation development by rapidly probing a large parameter space and identifying optimal formulations to test.

Manufacturing and QC

Continuously monitor production lines and anticipate process deviations. Minimize failures by tracking instrument wear patterns and identifying anomalies before they become problems. Enhance QC by preemptively flagging and addressing out-of-spec results.

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Accelerating ADME/Tox Testing with Data Science and AI

Learn how TetraScience helped SOLVO streamline ADME/Tox screening with AI. By replatforming and engineering scientific data, the Tetra Scientific Data and AI Platform supports the development and validation of an in silico model to optimize sampling and improve IC50 calculations.

Make your scientific data work for AI.

Tetra OS turns scattered instrument and lab data into a foundation AI can actually use.

Talk to an expert

By transforming how our scientists access, analyze, and share research data, we're unlocking new levels of productivity and enabling AI-powered insights through a connected, online data environment. Beyond boosting productivity, we're leveraging data and agentic AI to accelerate innovation across our drug discovery engine.

Jim Villa
Global Head of Research Strategy & Operations

Our expanded partnership with TetraScience is delivering measurable value through unified access to instrument and CRO data that powers our automation and analytics at scale. The platform's audit capabilities have streamlined our regulatory preparation processes.

Linus Goerlitz
Regulatory Science Transformation Lead

Embedding AI and digital technologies across the R&D value chain is one of Takeda’s core strategic areas for our future. Our data-driven R&D approach will reduce discovery timelines, enable the identification of targets faster, and help us design better therapeutic candidates.

Nicole Glazer
Head of R&D Data, Digital and Technology

Our collaboration with TetraScience strengthens how we help customers automate data management at scale in the laboratory.

Sean Baumann
VP - Digital and AI, Life Sciences, Diagnostics and Applied

Our collaboration with TetraScience enhances the precision and speed of our quality control processes. By automating manual steps, we're empowering our scientists to focus on innovation that brings essential medicines to women faster and more safely.

Niamh O'Rahilly-Drew
AVP Quality

The capabilities provided by TetraScience enable us to standardize and harmonize data at scale... accelerating the speed and quality of scientific discovery.

Claudio Battilocchio
Digital Automation Lead R&D