Saber Informatics is a data science consultancy. Our focus is on pharmaceutical R&D, specifically data preparation for ML/AI initiatives. Our technical expertise is in automating data capture and cleanup for subsequent modeling work.
Data capture, data quality for life sciences
Who we are
What we do
We help our customers set up their informatics tools to meet current and future data management needs. We also provide life sciences R&D informatics project support and data scientist services. If you do not have the resources to babysit your informatics issues, we can help.
Why choose us?
Good quality data gets you reliable results. We bring to the table a combination of current practical experience in the industry, personal and professional integrity, confidentiality, and a willingness to listen.
Where to find us?
Regionally, we have worked with clients based in the US, Western Europe, and Asia-Pacific, including with separate geographic sites of the same multinational company.
Recent Portfolio
Our work and most recent projects
We help our customers set up their informatics tools to meet current and future data management needs. Our specific technical expertise is in data quality controls and data capture workflows. Over 80% of our clients have given us repeated assignments.
2024
Industry colleagues have been asking why our list of projects has not been updated recently. As a rule, we do not talk about current projects. We have been very fortunate that many of our clients tend to renew, and... + continue reading
2022
Scientists at a global pharma company site here in Massachusetts used a sequence analytics toolkit that came with a business acquisition a decade ago. The original authors of the code have long moved on and eventually... + continue reading
2021
In this project we successfully set up and maintained an automated capture process for poorly formatted clinical research files incoming from offsite facilities of our client, a large US pharmaceutical company.... + continue reading
2020
In this project we helped preclinical scientists at a global pharma company site in the US establish a consistent and reproducible data workflow for post-processing assay results.
A multi-step cascade of curve... + continue reading
2019
Cheminformatics scientists at a global pharma company site here in Massachusetts have been using a lead-hopping dataset shared by the authors of a scientific article in a prestigious journal several years ago. Using... + continue reading
2019
In this project, we were hired to help our Client (a multi-site international pharma) mirror in-house in vitro assay result and annotation databases to a data warehouse for data analytics and advanced visualization.
As... + continue reading
2019
Sometimes a tried-and-true approach to solving a problem works best. In this project we were asked to automate the processing of clinical study sample shipment reports that are received from a CRO.
Our client, a global... + continue reading
2018
In this project, Saber Informatics was asked to implement a workflow management system for high-volume streams of pathology images in clinical research. Our client sends human tissue samples for analysis to partners who... + continue reading
2018
Our client (a large pharmaceutical company) works with partners who analyze tissue samples in clinical studies. Typically, more than one study would be active at a time, with multiple test panels. Raw analysis results... + continue reading
2018
Our Client (a research IT group at a midsized pharma company) was tasked with creating project dashboards for preclinical research scientists. Due to the fast-paced nature of R&D projects the dashboards needed to be... + continue reading
2017
In this project we implemented a collection of interactive data capture and analysis workflows for a DMPK team at a pharma company.
Our Client had centralized plate inventory, chemical and assay registration databases... + continue reading
2017
Tissue sample measurements submitted by multiple external partners for the same panel of clinical assays come in as tabular report files with an inconsistent file structure: layout, headers, data column names. In this... + continue reading
Services We Provide
We help our customers set up their informatics tools to meet current and future data management needs
We also provide life sciences R&D informatics project support and data scientist services. If you need to deal with data that doesn't quite fit into off-the-shelf software and you do not have the resources or the time to babysit the issues, we can help.
Are you starting a machine learning (ML/AI) project? We will help you avoid data preparation mistakes at the project start. A consistent, rule-... + continue reading
Need to deal with data that doesn't quite fit into off-the-shelf software? Are you working with an overseas IT partner organization who are new to... + continue reading
Have horrible Excel files? We have considerable practical experience automatically processing thousands of legacy Excel files per day in... + continue reading
Based on our prior experience we know that every department and lab are different because scientists need flexibility in how they use and... + continue reading
