Automating critical life sciences processes.

Saguaro is applying our vast expertise in automated material handling — operation flow control, equipment monitoring, data collection and analysis, and complete process automation solutions — to streamline software and firmware development and make various life sciences industry processes more efficient and accurate.

Examples of Saguaro life science client work include:

  • Liquid bio-sample transfer.
  • Enhancement of biobank equipment firmware applications and drivers.
  • Mass spectrometry-based platforms used in cancer profiling for solid tumors and liquid biopsies.
  • Testing for inherited genetic diseases.
  • Agricultural genomics.
  • Clinical research.

We offer test validation of various laboratory systems and comply with life science industry standards such as:

  • The LIS01/LIS02 communication protocols, used for message transfer between clinical and laboratory instruments and computer systems.
  • HL7 (Health Level Seven), a set of international standards for exchanging, integrating, sharing, and retrieving electronic health information.

If you’re finding it difficult to secure the software engineering talent you need to stay competitive, you’re not alone.

As our clients over the past quarter century have found, Saguaro can help. By tapping into our deep technical resources, you can scale your programs more quickly, easily, and effectively.

Our expertise extends across programming languages, web technologies, operating systems, databases, tools, and more — everything needed to automate and control sophisticated life sciences test and delivery systems.

Carefully matching our talent pool with your specific needs, we can tackle even your most complex, business-critical lab automation projects.

Solving your toughest problems is what we do best.

Real-world examples of Saguaro clients’ accomplishments.

Delivering the right samples at the right time

Challenge: A major laboratory client of a leading provider of life sciences solutions worldwide needed to deliver large numbers of required sample tubes at precise times.

Solution: Saguaro used machine learning technology to implement a task predicter that determined precisely how much time the tube delivery would take.

Result: The life sciences company can now accurately estimate the time required to extract a specific number of specific tubes from its biostore.

Medical instrument integration

Challenge: A leading manufacturer of ELISA systems needed a reliable and automated way to integrate ELISA medical instruments with its laboratory information system (LIS).

Solution: Saguaro developed and implemented a custom solution that acts as a bridge between the ELISA instruments and the LIS. We handled the full integration stack, from the communications layer (TCP/IP or serial) to protocol handling (LIS01/02 and HL7), message parsing, result transformation, and error management.

Result: By seamlessly translating instrument output into HL7 or LSI02 messages, we ensured bi-directional communication of test orders and results, including detailed logging, monitoring, and error handling. As a result, the manufacturer’s lab staff can now focus on analysis instead of data management, while achieving improved compliance with healthcare data standards.

Our Life Sciences lab validates real-world functionality.

The Saguaro Life Sciences lab is equipped with instruments that fully automate 2-plate and multi-plate ELISA systems for Dynex Technology, able to handle multiple assays on 96-well plates in a single run. We use these instruments to test, validate, and optimize the software that controls sample processing, incubation, washing, and detection, ensuring our automation software performs accurately across multiple assays and plate formats.

This lab also has equipment to support our development with Azenta, including printers and barcode scanners that use a variety of methods for inventory management. We use these tools to simulate real-world sample management and storage scenarios — testing, validating, and optimizing software that handles tube marking, barcode scanning, data capture, and inventory tracking within automated sample stores and cryo stores.

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We hold the following certifications: ISO 9001:2015, ISO 13485:2016, and Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC). We are following ISO/IEC 27002 guidelines.
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