Who we help
One sampling layer. Different ways to use it.
Researchers can use Biota Trace instruments within their own methods and workflows. Analytical providers can extend their services into sampling without changing what happens in the laboratory. Industry, utilities and consultancies can use the same technology as part of a complete managed monitoring programme.
What changes is not the underlying technology, but how much of the sampling and monitoring workflow you want Biota Trace to take on.
Researchers
Keep your science, methods and workflows. Use Biota Trace instruments to make more of a finite sampling budget.
Research programmes rarely have unlimited field time, people or sample allocation. The question is therefore not simply how many samples can be collected, but how much useful information each one can carry.
Biota Trace helps researchers collect samples more systematically, at the right times and with richer environmental context, so a fixed sampling allocation can produce a more representative and informative dataset without changing the analytical methods that follow.
- Make a finite sample allocation work harder
- Increase sampling throughput without proportionally increasing field effort
- Collect samples at scheduled, targeted or event-driven moments
- Improve consistency across field and bench workflows
- Add environmental context to make each sample more informative
- Retain existing filters, preservation approaches and analytical protocols
Often a purchase. Where research funding includes capital equipment, ownership can provide a straightforward way to build the capability into the project and retain it for future work.
eDNA & analytical providers
Keep the laboratory, methods and customer relationship. Extend your service into the sampling layer.
For many analytical providers, the constraint is not what can be done at the bench, but what reaches it. Clients may struggle to collect enough samples, collect them consistently, or sample at the times that matter most.
Biota Trace instruments help solve that upstream problem. They can make sampling easier to deliver, more systematic and more scalable, while feeding directly into the analytical workflow you already provide.
The value is not just better samples. It is the opportunity to support larger and more ambitious monitoring programmes, increase the number of samples reaching the laboratory and add richer environmental context to the results you return.
- Help clients collect more samples, more consistently
- Add automated and event-driven sampling to existing services
- Increase sample volumes without having to build sampling hardware
- Add environmental context alongside molecular results
- Retain your existing laboratory methods, workflows and customer relationships
- Use Biota Trace technology under your own service model or as part of a joint programme
Often campaign-based or supplied as part of your service. Start with a defined programme, prove the value with clients and scale the sampling capability as demand grows.
Industry, utilities & consultancies
Start with the monitoring question. Biota Trace can provide the technology, run the sampling, or deliver the wider programme.
Operational monitoring often has to support a decision, a regulatory requirement, a public commitment or an internal model. That means the value is not just in collecting a sample, but in producing data that is timely, repeatable, contextualised and easy to use.
Biota Trace can take on as much of that workflow as needed, from site survey and deployment through to sampling, analysis, data delivery and interpretation. Where existing laboratories, sampling partners or internal teams already work well, we can fit around them instead.
- Build the monitoring approach around the operational question
- Capture scheduled and event-driven samples at the times that matter
- Combine molecular, sensor and environmental data in the same programme
- Use your existing laboratory, Biota Trace analysis or an analytical partner
- Deliver outputs into existing reporting, modelling and decision workflows
- Scale from a defined campaign to a longer-term managed programme
Often a managed programme. Biota Trace can deploy and operate the capability without requiring your team to own, maintain or learn the equipment from day one.
Whichever way you work
Use the part of Biota Trace that adds value.
Keep your existing sampling, laboratory and analytical partners where they work well, or bring Biota Trace further into the programme where additional capability is needed.
The technology is designed to fit around the workflow, not force you to replace it.