Automated PCR Results

Automating Classification with Machine Learning

Doing Two Days’ Work in 30 Minutes

The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a widely-used method widely to amplify a small sample of DNA for analysis. The term became generally known during the Covid pandemic, where PCR tests were the gold standard for detecting the virus.

Our client was a specialist biotechnology start-up in the UK, who were hitting bottlenecks in the interpretation of results, with laboratory staff manually classifying PCR fluorescence curves. React AI provided an AI-driven solution which took what had been around two days’ work each week down to around 30 minutes.

Services Provided

React AI performed a broad array of services for our client, including:

Analysing the existing system end to end: the data production and consumption, the wider laboratory systems, user interactions and processing.
Analysing the specific problem and requirements in detail: understanding the issues with classification, such as systemic problems with certain viruses which implied specific fundtionality in the app, as well as the general data meaning, variation, quality, etc.
Training a neural-network-based AI solution for automated classification (including level of certainty, allowing users to manually review edge cases, in turn used to further train the model).
Implementing a full application, with a web UI, ML model, database, etc., and automated links into the laboratory’s upstream and downstream data flows.
Prototype delivered as a standalone app on a local server. After user acceptance, we transferred this to a cloud-based solution using AWS.
Full documentation including user guide.
User training.

Specialist Data Analysis
Process Analysis
Neural Networks
Machine Learning
Classification
Bespoke Development
System Integration
Cloud Hosting (AWS)
Django webserver
Reporting and Documentation

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Automated PCR Results

Doing Two Days’ Work in 30 Minutes

Services Provided