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What is Watershed?
Watershed is a modern operating system designed to fix the real bottlenecks in impactful bioinformatics. Watershed’s powerful hardware and intelligent software supports rather than replaces the bioinformatics developer by providing familiar, industry-standard coding tools, and getting out of the way of data-driven research and development. At the same time, our software layer provides single-button access to dedicated workhorse computers, scalable HPC environments, and industrial GPUs*, removing the need for a bioinformatician to moonlight as a cloud-ops engineer. Similarly, Watershed makes it effortless to convert analytical notebooks to UI-powered dashboards, letting dry-lab and wet-lab scientists collaborate on their data, and giving a first-class analytical experience to everyone on your team regardless of coding ability.
*not all access tiers have on-demand access to GPUs
Who uses Watershed?
Watershed is designed for any team where computational developers and wet-lab experts need to collaborate without barriers to either group. Our users include biologists, bioinformaticians, software engineers, and CSOs within discovery R&D groups, proteomics cores, sequencing facilities, informatics consulting orgs, and academic centers of excellence. The OS's flexibility makes it adaptable to a wide range of applications, but it shines for groups that need fast and robust computational workflows that don’t box out their wet-lab experts.
What does Watershed specialize in?
Watershed specializes in bioinformatician-friendly hardware and software working together. On the hardware side, our proprietary, purpose-built stack delivers informatics-focused (read: high-RAM, low-latency) machines with on-demand state-of-the-art GPUs without complex cloud-ops baggage wherever you need it. Meanwhile, our software focuses on effortless collaboration with non-coding colleagues and a workflow language that allows easy parallelization, HPC dispatch, caching, and tracking while seamlessly blending with unix tools and familiar notebook environments.
How can I get started with Watershed?
Schedule a demo with us today! We’ll share some of the magic that makes Watershed special, find out more about your compute, data, & storage needs, and help find the best Watershed package for you.
How much does Watershed cost?
Watershed has a tiered access fee and bills monthly for compute & storage usage. We pride ourselves on transparent billing: we have no fees or limits on seats or number of projects, and no data ingress/egress fees on storage.