Blog
Updates, guides, and behind-the-scenes from the bioAF project.
How to Choose a Cloud for Your Biotech Startup (and Why bioAF Supports Both)
Choosing between AWS and Google Cloud for a biotech startup is rarely about the spec sheet. A practical guide to deciding by your team, your constraints, and the biotech-specific factors most comparisons skip.
bioAF is now multi-cloud: deploy on AWS or GCP
bioAF is platform agnostic. A single cloud_provider setting picks Google Cloud or AWS, and a new one-command installer (install-aws.sh) provisions the AWS path end to end.
AI Review: an LLM advisory layer for pipeline outputs
Hosted LLM reviews of completed pipeline runs and experiment-wide comparisons, with a prompt builder for what to ask, support for prompt customization, and audit logging.
Connecting your LIMS with the bioAF Integration API
A public API lets your LIMS and other lab systems read and write projects, experiments, and samples without manual clicks.
Updating bioAF
Check your version, see what's new, and install an update without leaving the web UI.
Getting started with projects, experiments, and pipelines
From an empty platform to a finished scRNA-seq run: projects, experiments, samples, files, and an nf-core pipeline end to end.
Configuring SMTP for outbound email
Point bioAF at your mail server so it can invite teammates, reset passwords, and send notifications.
Installing bioAF in 12 minutes
A walkthrough of the quickstart installer: one command, a few prompts, and zero hand-written configuration.
Introducing bioAF
Small biotech teams deserve production-grade compute infrastructure without a 6-month setup. bioAF is an open-source framework that gets you there fast.