Data handling

Your data is a deposit, not an asset of ours.

Unpublished sequencing data is the most sensitive thing a lab hands to an outsider. Here is exactly what we do with it — described as practice, not as a certification claim.

We do not reuse your data

Your data is used for your project only. It is never pooled into a reference, used to build or tune a model, shown in marketing, or shared with another client.

We delete it

Raw data is deleted on request at any time, and by default after the retention window agreed in the quote. Deletion is confirmed in writing.

We sign your NDA

Send your institution's template before you send data. If you do not have one, we provide a mutual NDA.

Access is limited to the project

Only the people working on your project can reach the files, and transfer uses access-controlled links rather than email attachments.

Authorship and credit

We do not claim authorship by default. If the work goes beyond service and into intellectual contribution, that is a conversation, not an assumption.

What we cannot promise

We hold no compliance certification and do not present ourselves as a certified clinical or regulated processor. If your data carries obligations that require one, tell us first — we would rather decline than pretend.

Human-subject data. If your dataset is identifiable or governed by a data access agreement, say so before sending anything. We will tell you honestly whether we can take it under those terms.

Questions before you send anything?

Ask them first. We would rather answer a data-handling question than receive files we should not have.