Colabra

Navigating the complexities of biotech research and development often involves juggling disparate tools, siloed data, and fragmented communication, especially when working with external partners. Colabra provides a unified cloud platform designed specifically for the biotech R&D lifecycle, bringing your projects, data, documents, and collaborations into one cohesive environment. Move beyond scattered files and endless email chains to a workspace where your team can manage projects effectively, maintain data integrity, and accelerate discovery.

Colabra acts as your central hub, cataloging critical events throughout the R&D process, simplifying FAIR data governance, and connecting your existing tools to unlock valuable research insights. It's built to help your team maintain momentum, even through personnel changes, keeping all stakeholders informed and aligned.

Key Capabilities

🧬 Centralize Your Research World: Bring all your research data, notes, protocols, strategic documents, and communications into a single, searchable source of truth. Upload everything from meeting slides to large instrument exports (up to 5TB on Enterprise plans) and organize them logically.

🤝 Streamline Collaboration & Partnerships: Move conversations and data sharing with internal teams and external partners out of email and into a secure, shared space. Track progress transparently, gather feedback contextually, and manage deliverables efficiently.

📊 Manage Projects Designed for Science: Create tasks quickly, discuss experimental roadblocks directly within the context of the relevant data or protocol, and stay synchronized with both internal colleagues and external collaborators on project milestones and timelines.

🔗 Connect Your Entire Research Stack: Integrate Colabra seamlessly with the tools your team already relies on. With support for over 100 integrations and file formats (including Benchling, Slack, Office 365, Azure, SnapGene, ZEISS microscopes, and more), you can create a truly connected research ecosystem.

🤖 Leverage Your AI Research Copilot: Turn scattered information into actionable insights. Use Colabra AI to summarize documents, explain complex scientific jargon, maintain consistent writing styles across reports, and retrieve information from your internal files or trusted external sources like PubChem and NCBI – all without your data ever being used for model training.

🔒 Maintain Security & Compliance: Operate with confidence knowing your data is protected. Colabra is SOC 2 Type 2 certified, GxP aligned, supports 21 CFR Part 11 compliance requirements, and employs robust security measures like encryption in transit and at rest (TLS 1.2+), granular permissions, audit trails, and flexible hosting options (including VPC and custom data residency).

How Teams Use Colabra

1. Accelerating Preclinical Drug Discovery: A research team uses Colabra to manage a complex multi-assay project. They upload raw instrument data, link it to specific experimental protocols stored within Colabra, assign analysis tasks to team members, and discuss unexpected results directly on the relevant data pages. The AI Copilot helps summarize findings from related literature pulled from NCBI, speeding up hypothesis generation.

2. Managing University-Industry Partnerships: An alliance manager uses Colabra to create a secure data room for a collaboration with an academic lab. They share project updates, key datasets, and draft publications. The external partners can comment, provide feedback, and access necessary information without navigating complex institutional firewalls, while granular permissions ensure IP remains protected. Milestone tracking keeps both parties aligned on deliverables like the Investigator's Brochure.

3. Providing Executive Oversight: A biotech executive needs a quick overview of the R&D portfolio. Instead of requesting reports from multiple team leads, they log into Colabra and view a custom dashboard showing the status of key projects (e.g., PRO-4 IND Submission, PRO-63 Lead Identification), potential risks flagged by project managers, and recent successes, all drawn directly from the ongoing work documented within the platform.

Your Unified Platform for Research Velocity

Colabra consolidates the functions of multiple disparate tools into one integrated platform built for the unique demands of biotech R&D. By centralizing data, streamlining workflows, enhancing collaboration, and ensuring compliance, Colabra helps your team save valuable time and increase the success rate of your research endeavors. Whether you're a growing startup or an established global enterprise, Colabra provides a scalable and secure foundation for your most important work.