OpenCulture
openculture.ai offers Habitat, an automated benchtop biology platform that combines microfluidics, high-density microelectrode arrays, and agentic software to run cell experiments with minimal manual intervention. The system handles feeding, dose-response assays, and titrations while generating complete provenance chains and conversational analysis, enabling researchers to monitor and direct experiments remotely from anywhere.
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Product
Problem
Cell and tissue culture experiments require continuous manual intervention for feeding, dosing, and monitoring, which is time-consuming and prone to human error. Reproducibility suffers because the connection between sample preparation and final conclusions is fragmented across separate systems, requiring manual record-keeping to reconstruct experimental provenance.
Solution
Habitat is an automated benchtop biology platform that integrates microfluidics, an incubator, and high-density microelectrode arrays (HD-MEA) into a single square-foot system. Agentic software controls the entire experimental workflow—from reagent handling and perfusion to real-time electrical sensing—while a conversational interface lets researchers direct experiments and ask questions about results. The system automatically executes protocols like drug titrations and dose-response assays, then analyzes the data to identify key outcomes, such as minimum effective dosages. Every action is logged with complete metadata, creating a full provenance chain from sample to conclusion that eliminates manual record-keeping.
Target Audience
Primary customers are research laboratories running cell or tissue culture experiments who need to reduce manual overhead, improve reproducibility, and scale their experimental throughput.
Features
- Integrated benchtop system combining microfluidics, cell incubator, and reagent mini-refrigerator in a one-square-foot footprint
- High-density microelectrode array (HD-MEA) sensing for real-time electrical activity measurement across thousands of electrodes
- Automated experimental runs including feeding, dose-response assays, titrations, and longitudinal timepoint sampling
- Agentic software with conversational interface that interprets results and suggests follow-up experiments
- Complete provenance chain with metadata capture from sample preparation through final analysis
- Remote monitoring and control capabilities, allowing experiments to run in incubators, on electrodes, or under microscopes from any location