NS Bio designs custom analysis pipelines, processes sequencing data, and trains scientists for healthcare, public-sector, and academic-research clients. All work is performed on sovereign UK infrastructure — your data never leaves these shores.
Founded in 2023, NS Bio operates as a deliberately small, technically-led practice. Every project is delivered personally rather than handed down a chain of associates.
We work exclusively with anonymised samples on infrastructure that is self-hosted, segmented, and audited within the United Kingdom — engineered for the regulated environments that healthcare bodies, government agencies, and research institutions operate in.
For larger pieces of work we can scale up via a network of trusted contractor bioinformaticians, drawn from UK academic and public-sector backgrounds.
Sovereign UK capability is no longer a nice-to-have. Increasingly, healthcare and public-sector clients need to demonstrate that pathogen, sequencing, and patient-adjacent data has not crossed jurisdictions. NS Bio is engineered for that requirement from the ground up.
All data and processing remain inside the United Kingdom. No cross-border transfers, no foreign cloud dependencies, no data egress.
Owned infrastructure end to end. No AWS, Azure, or Google. We control the entire stack — hardware, network, application.
AES-256 encryption on storage, TLS in transit. Encryption keys are held only by NS Bio and never escrowed to third parties.
Every transfer, processing step, and access is logged. Documented chain of custody, ready for assessor or auditor handover.
Each engagement is scoped to your data, infrastructure, and team — not delivered from a fixed catalogue.
Design and implementation of analysis pipelines tailored to your sequencing platform, organism, and operating environment. From single-tool integrations through to full Nextflow or Snakemake workflows.
End-to-end processing of microbial sequencing data — quality control, assembly, speciation, AMR profiling, phylogenetics, and outbreak analysis. Performed with full chain of custody.
Tailored training in microbial bioinformatics for laboratory and research teams. Sessions are scoped to existing tooling and skill levels, with hands-on materials you keep afterwards.
Three flagship pipelines covering the work we do most often. Each can be run on your data with a documented, reviewable report at the end.
Whole-genome analysis · isolates
Quality control, assembly, speciation, antimicrobial resistance profiling, MLST typing, virulence gene detection, and phylogenetic placement — from raw reads to annotated report.
View example report →SoonMicrobiome composition · diversity
Amplicon sequence processing, ASV inference, taxonomic classification, alpha and beta diversity metrics, and differential abundance testing — for both bacterial (16S) and fungal (ITS) communities.
View example report →SoonDesign · validation · specificity
In-silico PCR, primer specificity testing against reference databases, coverage analysis across target taxa, and design recommendations — for diagnostic, surveillance, and research primers.
View example report →SoonMost projects move through four stages. Timelines vary by scope; expect a written quote within a week of the first call.
A short scoping call to understand your data, question, and constraints.
A written proposal within a week, with clear deliverables and timing.
Secure data transfer, analysis on encrypted infrastructure, regular updates.
Reports, raw outputs, and a documented handover. Iteration if needed.
Initial conversations are free and confidential. Most projects begin with a short scoping call — followed by a written quote within a week.