Emerald Cloud Lab (ECL) runs what it describes as the world's leading programmable, fully automated and software-controlled life science research laboratory, allowing scientists to execute experiments remotely at any hour, from any location. The operating model is built on software: a single interface, ECL Command Center, governs the entire facility and more than 200 different instrument models. For engineers working on automation, orchestration and control systems, the appeal is a large, physically real hardware estate exposed as programmable infrastructure.
The physical plant is a 100,000+ square-foot laboratory in Austin, Texas, running continuously, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Its instrumentation spans chromatography (HPLC, FPLC, GC), mass spectrometry, NMR spectroscopy, PCR, qPCR and ddPCR, ELISA immunoassays, SPR/BLI biomolecular interaction analysis, Western Blotting and flow cytometry. Technical work at ECL spans laboratory automation and robotics, cloud-based remote experimentation, software-controlled instrumentation and life sciences research more broadly.
Customers come from pharmaceutical and biotech R&D, drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics, translational medicine, consumer products research and academic laboratories, ranging from Big Pharma companies to startups. Access is global and remote-first. The company describes itself as founded by scientists for scientists, and frames its mission as a significant technological leap in scientific research.
