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LatchBio
AI agents that run bioinformatics analyses, from a company that pivoted from workflow hosting
As of 31 August 2026, LatchBio's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. LatchBio began as a hosted bioinformatics workflow platform and has repositioned around agent. Softwr lists it under AI. LatchBio is available on Web.
Overview
What LatchBio does
LatchBio provides a platform where scientists upload biological data and use AI agents to analyse it. The agent handles single cell RNA sequencing, spatial transcriptomics, epigenomics and proteomics data, planning the analysis, writing and executing code, debugging its own failures and returning results and figures with an explanation in plain language. The company publishes benchmarks of agent performance on real biological datasets and sells white labelled analysis portals to assay and kit providers who want their customers to analyse results without building a bioinformatics team. The distinguishing point is the pivot itself. LatchBio originally sold a hosted workflow platform with a Python SDK for registering and running bioinformatics pipelines, aimed at replacing homegrown Nextflow deployments. It now leads with agents. It raised a large Series B in April 2026 on that positioning. For a buyer this matters commercially: a company that adopted the earlier workflow product is now a customer of a company whose attention is elsewhere, and a company evaluating it today is buying into an approach whose accuracy on its own data it has to verify. Buyers are biotech R&D groups without in house bioinformatics capacity, and assay and reagent vendors who want an analysis portal to attach to their kits. The trade-off is trust: an agent that writes its own analysis code produces results a scientist still has to be able to defend, and the organisations best placed to check the output are precisely the ones least likely to need the agent.
What people use it for
- A small biotech with sequencing data and no bioinformatician who needs a first pass differential expression or cell type annotation quickly
- An assay or kit vendor that wants to give customers an analysis portal under its own branding rather than shipping raw files
- A wet lab scientist who wants to explore a dataset interactively before commissioning a formal analysis from a core facility
- A research group benchmarking agent produced analyses against its own established pipeline to decide how much routine work can be delegated
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Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about LatchBio.
- The company has pivoted from hosted bioinformatics workflows to AI agents, so organisations that adopted the earlier SDK and workflow product are now on a line that is no longer the strategic focus.
- Agent generated analysis code has to be validated by someone who could have written it, which inverts the value proposition for the small labs that most need it and cannot check the output.
- No pricing is published, so the cost of routine agent analysis at team scale cannot be estimated without contacting sales, and compute billed through the platform makes the bill usage dependent.
- Regulated use is a poor fit: an agent that writes non deterministic analysis code is difficult to validate under GxP, so this is a research tool rather than something that will sit in a regulated diagnostic or submission workflow.
- The vendor publishes its own benchmarks, which is more than most competitors do, but self reported benchmarks on selected datasets are not a substitute for testing the agent on your own data before committing.
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Pricing
What LatchBio costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
LatchBio Platform
On request
- Quoted through a sales process
- Interactive sandbox available for trying the agent before contracting
- Enterprise and white labelled portal deployments priced separately
- Compute for analyses billed through the platform
Capabilities
Features
Agent driven analysis
Plain language questions against uploaded data, with the agent writing and running the analysis code
Multi assay support
Single cell, spatial transcriptomics, epigenomics, proteomics and pharmacology data types
Published benchmarks
Reported agent performance on real biological datasets rather than only on synthetic tasks
White labelled portals
Branded analysis environments that kit and assay providers give their own customers
Common file format handling
Ingestion of FastQ, H5AD, Excel and similar formats without preprocessing
Managed compute
Analyses run on the platform, removing the need for a local cluster
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
Is LatchBio still selling the original workflow platform?
The company is now led by agent.bio and its agent products. Buyers evaluating the older Python SDK workflow platform should confirm current support directly.
Can I try it before buying?
Yes. There is an interactive sandbox where you can upload data and run the agent before entering a sales conversation.
Is it suitable for regulated work?
Not really. Non deterministic agent generated code is hard to validate under GxP, so treat it as a research and exploration tool.
What data types does it handle?
Single cell RNA sequencing, spatial transcriptomics, epigenomics, proteomics and pharmacology data, ingesting FastQ, H5AD and spreadsheet formats.
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