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

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.

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.

Watershed is founded on the belief that bioinformatics developers are real scientists doing real science, and no software platform can ever replace them. Rather than offering a range of pre-existing “one-size-fits-all” software pipelines that try to remove the bioinformatician from bioinformatics and ultimately serve no research groups’ needs perfectly, Watershed exists to empower and support the bioinformatician in accessing the resources they need and giving them the tools to share their work in an impactful manner. At the same time, our focus on collaboration across coding levels is central to our belief that the best scientific teams are those where everyone’s expertise is valued, and every user is treated as a first-class contributor on an equal playing field.

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.