Willowbench provides a cloud platform that runs and shares computational biology workflows on AWS without requiring users to manage infrastructure or configure pipelines. It offers pre‑ported Terra WDL pipelines, custom workflow packaging, and automatic reproducibility tracking through a web UI, with pay‑as‑you‑go or subscription pricing.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Biotech researchers and computational biologists often face steep technical barriers when running large-scale analyses in the cloud, including complex infrastructure setup, pipeline configuration, and reproducibility tracking. These challenges limit productivity and make it difficult to share results across teams.
Solution
Willowbench offers a cloud-based platform that runs and shares computational biology workflows on Amazon Web Services without requiring users to manage infrastructure or debug configurations. The service includes ported Terra WDL pipelines, enabling users to leverage trusted community workflows on AWS instead of Google Cloud. For proprietary analyses, Willowbench provides custom workflow development and containerization, delivering a point‑and‑click interface that abstracts away the underlying complexity. Each execution is automatically logged, allowing exact reproducibility and straightforward sharing of results with collaborators. Users can choose a pay‑as‑you‑go credit model or a flat‑fee subscription that runs workflows in their own AWS account.
Target Audience
Primary customers are biotech companies, pharmaceutical research groups, and academic labs that need scalable, reproducible computational biology analyses without dedicated cloud engineering resources.
Features
- Pre‑ported Broad Institute Terra WDL pipelines optimized for seamless execution on AWS
- Custom workflow packaging with automated containerization and pipeline development
- Intuitive web UI that requires no configuration, debugging, or cloud‑infra expertise
- Automatic run tracking and versioning to ensure precise reproducibility of analyses
- Secure sharing of workflow results and reports with team members or external collaborators
- Flexible pricing: credit‑based pay‑as‑you‑go execution in Willowbench’s AWS account or subscription‑based runs in the customer’s own AWS environment