What is Assay Services?
No Instruments, No Validation Risk, No Startup Delays
Our Expert Single-Cell Team Takes On The Complete Service From Design To Analysis.
Most scientists reach a point where running legacy assays in parallel simply falls short. Separate orthogonal assays on split samples create fragmented datasets, forcing teams to infer one cell’s biology from many resulting in missed grant opportunities or delays in therapy development. While single-cell multiomics solves this, custom assays require panel-design expertise, validated instruments, and specialized bioinformatics that most labs cannot build in-house. Bandwidth, physical lab space, and the time required to troubleshoot and scale these workflows create real barriers to getting the answers your research and program need.
Assay Services is Mission Bio’s purpose-built service designed to support diverse research and therapeutic-development programs. Our expert team designs the assays, executes the runs on the Tapestri® single-cell multiomic platform, and analyzes the resulting datasets. The service delivers multi-attribute, per-cell resolution across DNA, RNA, protein, and epigenetics in a single assay, with validated, scalable methods that transfer to your site, CRO, or CDMO when you are ready.
Pharmaceutical Companies
Legacy assays lack multi-attribute single-cell resolution. Scaling internal workflows for discovery, biomarker identification, and critical quality attribute (CQA) data across development phases requires expertise and infrastructure most analytical teams cannot build at speed. Assay Services solves this by providing a fully scalable, expert-run single-cell multiomic assays that provide the high-resolution, multi-attribute data your pipeline demands.
Academic Researchers
Translational and clinical research questions require single-cell precision that standard workflows cannot deliver. Being resource favorable is essential to make sure budget goes a long way, and purpose-built single-cell assays on the Tapestri® platform are accessible without instrument purchase or new hires.
Biotechnology Companies
Emerging programs need rigorous characterization data on a compressed timeline. Hiring staff, purchasing instruments, and standing up data analysis pipelines delays the science and draws resources from the core program. Assay Services acts as an extension of your team to scope, execute, and analyze your single-cell assays, ensuring your program gets reliable data without the overhead of standing up a lab.
Hospital and Medical Affiliates
Oncology, cell therapy, gene therapy, and translational groups need validated single-cell precision. Assay Services delivers custom single-cell multiomic capabilities directly to your program, completely eliminating the need to stand up new infrastructure or make new hires.
Support
End-to-end scientific support across your project
From the first conversation to final data delivery, the Assay Services team takes on every step. Each project is staffed with dedicated scientists who handle assay design, wet lab execution, data analysis, and long-term method support so your team can focus on the biology, not the infrastructure.
Comprehensive Support Across the Pharma Workflow
Scope Project
Panel &
Assay Design
Wet Lab
Data Analysis
Long-term
Pipeline
Support
Panel &
Assay Design
Step 1
Scope Project
The Mission Bio Assay Services team meets with your team to understand your targets of interest, sample type, program goals, and any regulatory or transfer requirements. This scoping call defines the assay strategy, sets a realistic timeline, and aligns expectations before any wet lab work begins.
Step 2
Panel and Assay Design
We work alongside your team to design your panels for the Tapestri® platform. Whether you bring your own targets or need assistance selecting the right DNA, RNA, protein, or epigenetic markers, we partner with you to finalize the panels for your project. Panel design incorporates sample constraints, coverage requirements, and multi-attribute needs, with your review and sign-off before moving to the bench.
Step 3
Wet Lab Execution
Mission Bio scientists run the assay in their dedicated laboratory using optimized, validated protocols on the Tapestri® platform. Quality checkpoints are built into the workflow at each stage, from single-cell encapsulation through library preparation and sequencing, to ensure data quality before analysis begins.
Step 4
Data Analysis and Reporting
We process the sequencing data to clearly resolve variants, RNA expression, and protein signal at the single-cell level. Analyzed results are delivered with annotated reports and visualizations that connect directly to your biological question, ready for internal review or regulatory submission.
Step 5
Long-Term Project Support
As your program evolves, our team provides ongoing scientific consultation, offering support for follow-up experiments, result interpretation, and the preparation of methods documentation for publications or assay transfer.
Step 6
Assay Transfer and Scale-Up
When your program is ready to move to a partner site, contract research organization (CRO), or contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), the team prepares transfer-ready documentation including installation, operational, and performance qualification (IOQ/PQ) protocols, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and validated analysis workflows. Assays are designed from the start with transfer in mind, reducing failure risk when moving between environments or scaling across development phases.
Applications
Two focused areas of service to match your program
Assay Services is organized into two segments: Drug and Biomarker Development, and Cell and Gene Therapy. This structure reflects the distinct scientific questions, regulatory considerations, and assay designs each program type requires. Both segments run on the same Tapestri® single-cell multiomic platform and are supported by the same expert team, so each program gets the depth and resolution the science demands.
Whether your team is resolving rare cell populations for a clinical biomarker endpoint or generating per-cell characterization data to satisfy cell and gene therapy regulatory guidance, the service is structured to address your specific needs directly.
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Ready to scope your project?
Discuss your program, sample type, and scientific question with a Mission Bio scientist. We will work closely with you to determine the right design, timeline, and deliverables to help achieve your goals.