Inari unites biological and data sciences to help scientists create new crops better suited for local environments
Image: Inari's approach will help growers to use less land, water, fertilisers and other inputs to feed the growing global population. Photo: courtesy of Tuhin khamaru from Pixabay.
Seed company Inari has selected L7 Informatics’ enterprise science platform (ESP) for the consolidation of its global operations.
The company will use the L7 Informatics platform for the integration of its global research data, processes and bioinformatics,
The L7’s enterprise science platform is a scientific information management (SIM) solution, which allows crop science companies to connect wet lab, greenhouses, sequencing and analytical processes with instruments and software systems to optimise research and improve organizational efficiency.
Inari will deploy L7’s enterprise science platform to integrate global research data, processes and bioinformatics
Inari, established in 2016 by Flagship Pioneering, works to reduce plant breeding time and cost.
The company aims to unify biological and data sciences to offer its scientists with advanced capabilities to create new crops better suited for local environments.
Inari works with independent seed companies to deliver its technology and helps growers to use less land, water, fertilisers and other inputs to feed the growing global population.
In February this year, the seed company expanded its research footprint to Europe with the launching of a laboratory in Ghent, Belgium.
Inari will deploy the L7’s platform for efficient carrying out of global business operations. It will first implement the platform at the Cambridge facility in Massachusetts, West Lafayette facility in Indiana and Ghent facility in Belgium.
Inari will use the L7’s platform in its end-to-end research processes ranging from early-stage R&D to development.
ESP’s flexible and configurable process engine will help standardise processes across the globe and provide flexibility to local teams to develop custom workflows without using any programming.
L7 Informatics president and CEO Vasu Rangadass said: “We are confident that the ESP platform will provide the data Integrity and process automation capabilities to enable Inari to realize their vision to reintroduce nature’s genetic diversity and creating novel seeds to help feed the growing global population using less water and fertilizer.”
Inari, which collaborates with independent seed producers, uses its computational and genetic toolbox to launch high performing plant varieties for the improvement of economic and environmental realities of production agriculture.