The lab was never supposed to fit in a pocket.
So we built one that does. Bio-Scry takes the whole genomics workflow — assembly, annotation, analysis, typing — and runs it entirely on the phone in your hand.
Assembling a genome used to mean a cluster or an extortionate bill.
Turning raw reads into a finished genome meant either standing up your own compute cluster or paying a bioinformatics service to do it off-site — and either way, your data left the building. That's a barrier for a field lab, a classroom, a clinic in a low-resource setting, or anyone who simply doesn't want their sequences on someone else's server.
What Bio-Scry is.
A whole bench, on-device
De-novo assembly, annotation, a genome browser, a sequence workbench, comparative genomics and isolate typing — computed locally on the phone's CPU and GPU. No server in the loop.
A genuine first
Its Spine assembler reconstructs a complete, circular bacterial genome in about a minute and a half — the first complete whole-genome assembler engineered to run in-process within a phone's memory budget. See how →
Private by construction
Your reads and results are processed on the device and never transmitted. No accounts, no tracking, no analytics — there's nothing to leak because nothing leaves.
What we hold to.
Proven methods, honestly framed
We build on established, well-characterised methods and describe them plainly. Where we've done something genuinely new — running it all on a phone — we say exactly that, and nothing more.
Reproducible & citable
Reference databases are versioned, and every result records the exact database version that produced it — so a run holds up months later.
Research, not diagnosis
Bio-Scry is for research and education. It is not a certified diagnostic and must not be the sole basis for clinical decisions.
Made by Nurtli.
Bio-Scry is built by Nurtli — a small team that thinks serious science should run on the hardware people already own. Questions, ideas, or a bug to report? We'd love to hear from you.
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