Featured project · 01
Pakistan Biotechnology Gateway
A federated digital marketplace connecting researchers, universities, hospitals and industry with verified sequencing labs, bioinformatics providers and indigenous suppliers — one record from request-for-quote to released results.
Product
Pakistan Biotechnology Gateway
Type
Multi-portal marketplace · SaaS
Our role
Design, engineering & operations
Status
Live in production
Coverage
Sequencing · analysis · supplies
Access
Public registry + member portals
The problem
Pakistani science was sending its samples — and its data — abroad
Months lost to outsourcing
Researchers routinely shipped samples abroad — long queues, customs friction and turnaround measured in months, not days.
Opaque, one-off pricing
Quotes arrived by email with no comparison. Nobody could see competing offers side-by-side, so nobody knew a fair price.
Unverified local capacity
Real sequencing capacity existed inside Pakistan — but there was no trusted way to discover it, verify it or route work to it.
Data and samples leaving the country
Biological material, germplasm and sequence data flowed offshore — ownership, custody and national capacity all eroded.
The solution
One platform. One record. RFQ to report.
The Gateway doesn't run a lab — it runs the marketplace. Researchers post what they need, verified providers compete for it blind, and the winning lab delivers inside a single project record: shipping, QC, stages, files and invoices — with Syntax of Life operating verification, moderation and settlement.
The core loop
RFQ to results in five moves
Post an RFQ
Organism, sample count, service category, requested output, deadline, budget hint. Routed to capability-matched labs, or published to the moderated open board.
Collect sealed quotes
Verified labs quote blind — price, tax, guaranteed TAT, platform, deliverables. No lab ever sees a competitor's price; only a sealed-quote count.
Award the project
The customer compares quotes side-by-side and selects. The winning lab must accept — providers stay independent by design.
Track the wet lab
Chain-of-custody shipping, intake QC verdicts and an eight-stage work ladder — accessioning through report review — visible to the customer in real time.
Release results
Files upload as drafts, release to the customer only when the lab decides. Milestone invoicing, payment verification and a closing review complete the loop.
Engineering highlights
The parts that make it fair — and honest
Sealed-bid quoting
Labs submit quotes blind and can update them until award. Each sees only 'N sealed' — never a rival's price. Real competition, no signaling.
LIMS-lite work stages
Every project runs an eight-stage ladder — accessioning, sample QC, library prep, library QC, sequencing, data processing, analysis, report review — each timestamped and customer-visible.
QC gates with decisions
Structured metrics — Qubit ng/µL, RIN/DV200, 260/280 — scored PASS, PARTIAL or FAIL. Flagged QC pauses for a customer decision: proceed under disclaimer, resend, or cancel.
Staged result release
Uploads sit as private drafts until the lab releases them. Customers get a 403 on unreleased files — results land only when the science is ready.
SLA clock with pause
The due date is set from the lab's guaranteed TAT at award. Pausing records whose clock the wait sits on — lab or customer — and resumes honestly.
Milestone invoicing
Partial invoices per milestone. Customers report payment with method and reference; labs verify; settlement completes on payout.
Masked until awarded
Customer identity is reduced to org type and city until a quote is selected. Lab internals — technician, storage location, LIMS refs — never render to the customer.
Verification & moderation
Every provider and supplier is reviewed before going live. Board posts and service listings queue for platform review — unapproved work is invisible everywhere.
Public surfaces
Beyond the project loop
Service marketplace
Providers publish priced service listings with per-listing price visibility — public, members-only or quote-only — each moderated before it reaches the catalog.
Supplies marketplace
Indigenous kits, reagents and consumables. Enquiry → priced offer → invoice → paid → fulfilled — the full Quartzy-style loop, inside the same account.
Verified registry
A public directory of approved facilities — platforms, sample types, HPC capacity and review ratings earned from completed projects.
Trust & security
Built to be audited
Strict role isolation
Every account is confined to its own portal — server-enforced on each request.
Audit everything
RFQ created, quote submitted, award, release, payout — every action logged with its actor.
20+ notification events
In-app bell plus email copies across every state change in the loop.
Data stays home
Samples, sequence data and outputs remain with Pakistani scientists and institutions.
Why it matters
What changes when capacity stays home
Turnaround in days
Work routes to local verified facilities — no export queues, no customs limbo.
Real price discovery
Sealed competing quotes replace single-vendor email pricing.
Capacity made visible
Every lab, platform and supplier is reviewed and searchable in one place.
Data stays sovereign
Biological material and sequence data remain with Pakistani institutions.
Accountable delivery
Stages, QC gates and milestone payments make progress verifiable, not promised.
Local expertise compounds
Every project builds sequencing and bioinformatics capacity inside the country.
This is what we build — and run
The Gateway is live and routing real work today. Post your study, or talk to us about what the platform can do for your program.