For structural-biology biotechs & cryo-ET cores

Cryo-ET pipelines on your AWS — no academic-cluster waitlist.

RELION-5, AreTomo, Warp/M, IsoNet, MemBrain, MotionCor3, CTFFIND4, Topaz — verified containers, multi-GPU, Slurm-orchestrated. Multi-TB tilt-series stay in your VPC. We containerize the new methods that drop quarterly so your team doesn't have to.

RELION-5 AreTomo Warp / M IsoNet denoising MemBrain particle picking MotionCor3 + CTFFIND4

First reference customer free · $4K paid pilot otherwise · $750/mo BYOC after

Where we are with cryo-ET

A platform, looking for the first cryo-ET partner.

Clusterra runs benchmarked proteomics and structure-prediction workflows on customer AWS today. The cryo-ET stack — RELION-5, AreTomo, IsoNet, MemBrain — is containerized and runs on the same managed Slurm. We don't yet have a published cryo-ET case study with real tilt-series numbers.

If you're a structural-biology biotech or core facility tired of waiting for academic-cluster slots, we'd love to benchmark your tilt series as the first cryo-ET reference deployment. Free pilot, joint case study, your data in your VPC.

Cryo-ET toolchain

Verified containers for the in-cell structural-biology stack.

Pinned versions, GPU-tuned, multi-node where applicable. The exact things you'd install on a fresh academic cluster, minus the install.

Why BYOC for cryo-ET

Multi-TB tilt series are not someone else's problem.

01 / Data gravity

5–10+ TB per microscope session. Don't upload it to a vendor cloud.

Tilt-series and reconstructed tomograms stay in your S3 bucket. Cross-account IAM, your KMS keys, your audit trail. We never see the data.

02 / No academic queue

RELION 3D refinement at p4/p5 GPU scale, on demand.

Skip the 2-week academic-cluster waitlist. Pay only for the GPU-hours you use. Multi-GPU NCCL + EFA for large refinements; spot checkpoint-restart for long jobs.

03 / Frontier tools, fast

The new method that dropped last quarter is already containerized.

IsoNet, MemBrain, AreTomo, Warp/M — we track the field. When the next denoiser or picker drops, we container-build and ship it. You don't maintain a custom RELION install with five patches.

Who this is for

A real fit, honestly.

Fit

You probably want to talk to us if …

· 5–50 person structural-biology biotech (cellular cryo-ET, drug-target structure)
· Or a cryo-EM core facility serving industry users
· Running RELION / AreTomo / Warp pipelines on aging on-prem GPUs or shared academic clusters
· Need GPU + fast scratch for tomogram reconstruction and subtomogram averaging
· Want a managed catalog of frontier OSS tools (IsoNet, MemBrain, etc.) without maintaining containers yourself

Not fit

Probably not for you if …

· Your pipeline is fully on cryoSPARC and the license is happy
· You have an in-house cryo-EM IT team running your own cluster
· You only do SPA (single-particle), not cryo-ET — the wedge here is in-cell tomography
· You need SOC 2 / FedRAMP in month one
· Microscope time is your only bottleneck and processing turnaround doesn't matter

Platform competence (cross-field)

No cryo-ET case study yet — but the platform is real.

These published benchmarks demonstrate the same managed-Slurm-on-AWS substrate that would run your cryo-ET pipeline. Same containers, same orchestration, same BYOC model.

tcr-pmhc-bench

5-chain co-folding, GPU-orchestrated

11 reference TCR-pMHC complexes, Boltz-2 on A10G, DockQ 0.59-0.62 against published crystals. Demonstrates GPU-driven structure prediction at ~$0.13/complex.

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drug-disco-bench

Multi-stage GPU pipeline

EGFR target → 1,000-compound docking → Boltz-2 rescore → GROMACS MD. End-to-end in 73 min for $1.16 on EC2 GPUs. Demonstrates multi-stage GPU + MPI orchestration.

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sarek-parabricks

Multi-TB I/O, GPU acceleration

30× WGS in 2h 32m for ~$2.59/sample. Parabricks GPU alignment + DeepVariant. F1=0.9966 against GIAB. Demonstrates large-input pipelines at scale with reliability under spot.

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$ sbatch cryo-et-pipeline --tilt-series sample.mrc # RELION-5 + AreTomo + IsoNet + MemBrain on your AWS.

Be our first cryo-ET reference partner.

30 minutes to scope your pipeline. 4 weeks of free pilot on your tilt series in exchange for a published joint case study. After that, $750/mo BYOC.