Streamline bioinformatic tool development and analysis workflows with comprehensive QA. Deliver scientific innovations with confidence and ease.
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Whether developing custom pipelines or managing large-scale data, Miqa supports testing and validation throughout the entire lifecycle—from pipeline creation to deployment and maintenance.
Prevent new code changes from introducing bugs into your tools or analysis pipelines. Ensure long-term reliability with testing frameworks and continuous integration.
Ensure bioinformatic tools and research data meet the highest standards of accuracy and reproducibility.
Evaluate tools and datasets against previous versions or industry benchmarks, driving continuous improvement and maintaining high data integrity.
Use data-driven insights to optimize your analysis parameters, ensuring biologically valid outcomes based on your dataset and application.
Whether developing custom pipelines or managing large-scale data, Miqa supports testing and validation throughout the entire lifecycle—from pipeline creation to deployment and maintenance.
Setting up QA from scratch can be overwhelming. Miqa simplifies this with built-in data and templates for instant exploratory testing, providing actionable insights to refine your bioinformatic tools.
Exploratory Testing
Begin testing immediately with our built-in tools, gathering key QA requirements for both software and data.
Guided Test Builder
Configure tests using click-and-drop templates tailored for software engineers and researchers.
Advanced Customization
Build advanced test suites using our JSON editor or consult our expert team for tailored support.
Effortlessly test your analysis software or pipelines on the cloud or on premise, anytime and as often as needed.
Seamless Integration
Connect Miqa with your existing DevOps tools, workflows, and compute environments.
Unlimited Test Runs
Run parallel tests as often as needed, with flexibility to match your development and research schedules.
Instant Output Comparison
Automatically compare results against selected baselines, ensuring consistent performance in both software and data.
Miqa offers more than just a pass/fail on code quality - it lets you interactively explore and analyze your test results.
Interactive Visualizations
Analyze results with detailed charts, genome browsers, or preferred visualization tools for deep insights into software performance and research outcomes.
Performance & Metric Tracking
Monitor QA data over time. Identify meaningful trends in your analysis pipeline to drive continuous improvement.
Dynamic Result Stratification
Evaluate the overall performance of your test runs or stratify the data to uncover QA trends specific to different subgroups.
Boost productivity and R&D efficiency with Miqa, managing multiple bioinformatic pipelines, test suites and data in one place.
Test History
Access a complete history of your test runs with version control, facilitating in-depth analysis and troubleshooting across projects.
Reusable Test Suites
Save time by reusing or cloning test modules across multiple QA workflows.
Dynamic Test Updates
Adapt testing criteria and reanalyze data as your R&D needs evolve.
Miqa offers specialized capabilities for both bioinformatic software engineers and researchers, including scalable pipeline development, rigorous validation protocols, and best practices in software design and data management
Adopted by computational biology R&D teams from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies.
"I have observed first-hand the ability of this product to streamline our development and testing process, ensure much higher accuracy than we would have been otherwise able to reach on the same timetable, and also be flexible and adaptable to our specific needs."
"This has the potential to fundamentally address one of the great uncertainties of bioinformatics software development — Does the new release break anything?"
"Having this functionality available has saved us months of development time and has also allowed us to easily validate and optimize multiple aspects of our existing pipelines. We have found Miqa to be a critical piece of our overall development process."
Schedule a call or demo to find out how Magna Labs can accelerate your scientific innovations with confidence.
Get an interactive tour of our software/data QA platform, setting-up an automated testing workflow under 10 minutes.
Speak to our bioinformatic QA experts about tailored solutions to your bioinformatic development or analysis needs.
Software testing is often a major bottleneck in development, espeically in life sciences. Miqa empowers you to continuously validate or benchmark your bioinformatic tools from prototype to production—without slowing down innovation.
Evaluate your bioinformatic tools throughout the development cycle. The sooner issues are detected, the less costly they are to fix. Miqa enables you to implement data-driven improvements of your data analysis workflows for safe clinical and research use.
Monitor the performance & quality of your pipelines upon each execution. Ensure your analysis results are consistent and accurate over time.
Pinpoint sources of analysis issues (e.g., code errors, incorrect variant calls, low precision/recall) so you can resolve them as soon as they arise.
Implement QA workflows directly with your bioinformatic pipelines, DevOps stack and computing environment.
Release new software or updates confidently with up-to-date test or benchmark data.
Manually run a test on demand, perfect for a quick output check or exploratory testing during set-up.
Automate testing at regular time intervals such as daily, weekly, or monthly.
Automatically launch tests with every pull request or software release through your continuous integration (CI) system.
Are you still storing testing scripts, test data and QA results in different places? Miqa allows you to manage all these on a single platform.
Track and manage different variations of your analysis pipeline—whether it's multiple versions, components, or parameter sets—with comprehensive QA logs and metadata.
Your QA metrics, or test assertions, can be packaged into reusable test blocks that can be applied across multiple datasets or pipelines. These test blocks can also be linked into test chains to create more comprehensive tests.
Each test run is meticulously tracked with a unique ID, execution timestamps, and linked to the specific analysis pipeline and testing workflow metadata.
Test results are clearly documented and linked to specific runs, allowing easy comparison between tests. Results include pass/fail outcomes, error logs, and key performance metrics for comprehensive pipeline insights.
Use well-characterized, standardized datasets to assess bioinformatic tool performance with high granularity. Select from our growing catalog of annotated test data, or upload your own data source.
Evaluate your analysis pipelines with a diverse range of test datasets, including bug data, development data, and real-world samples contributed by collaborators, to gain an accurate understanding of performance on realistic data.
Continuously curate data by integrating relevant metadata, such as cancer status, or analyzing uncharacterized datasets to uncover trends and assess performance against key metrics, like mutation rates or precision/recall. Work collaboratively to build a comprehensive repository of truth data over time, with dynamic evaluations conducted at every stage of the curation process.
Use the built-in Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV) to examine each variant calls. Mark each variant call as true or false positive, add labels or comments and share with your team for final review all within the Curation module.
Achieve comprehensive coverage of edge cases and rare sample types with simulated sequencing data. Create spike-ins, subsamples, admixtures, and titrations from existing datasets, or generate fully synthetic data to enhance your testing framework.
Beyond code quality checks.
Miqa does more than verify if your NGS data analysis code runs correctly. It provides in-depth interpretation and reporting of test results and application-specific evaluation metrics, tailored to the needs of bioinformatic developers and scientific researchers.
A variety of data-driven test types to assess software accuracy, reproducibility & robustness.
Basic validation to ensure pipeline runs to completion successfully with expected file number, format and size.
Verify that identical inputs consistently produce identical results for reproducibility.
Ensure that updates don’t introduce errors by comparing outputs to previous pipeline versions.
Compare summary statistics of NGS data across test runs using built-in or custom processing tools like FastQC and samtools-stats.
Confirms that software updates or code changes do not break existing features by comparing new outputs with previously validated results.
Monitor output quality over time & quickly pinpoint the version or change associated with any unexpected results or errors.
Compare analysis results under different parameter sets. Fine tune your analysis to achieve the best performance and accuracy across datasets.
Compare different software or pipeline performance on the same data to identify the best option for your use case.
Create tests tailored to specific project needs, data types, or workflows, ensuring the software meets specialized requirements.
Define your QA metrics and thresholds in your tests and Miqa will give you a pass/fail/warning flag for each metric upon a test execution.
Simply one click to create a test chain or test block to run future tests automatically and reproducibly.
Leverage our robust cloud infrastructure and seamless integrations with popular cloud services and DevOps tools to conduct real-time testing of your bioinformatic tools with every code change.
Our easy setup supports scalable test automation, enabling you to start building high-quality bioinformatic software immediately.
Miqa integrates effortlessly with your existing continuous integration (CI) and DevOps tools, such as BitBucket, GitHub, CircleCI, and Jenkins.
Connect Miqa to your development environment and trigger automated test runs directly from your codebase.
Automatically update or gate pull requests based on real-time test results, and collaborate seamlessly with your team.
There’s no need to modify your existing analysis or development workflows.
Miqa connects directly to your Docker, Conda, Python, Bash, Snakemake, Nextflow, custom APIs, or any containerized tools, allowing you to integrate testing without disruption.
Miqa is fully compatible with leading cloud computing platforms, including Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft Azure.
Using an on-premise high-performance computing (HPC) setup? We offer alternative solutions to quickly onboard your team and integrate with your existing infrastructure.
Minimize surprises by testing your bioinformatic tools with each code change, on-demand, or on a predefined schedule. Strategically execute tests to ensure thorough and relevant coverage.
Create responsive test suites using consistency, accuracy, and timing-based criteria. Validate behaviors with quick smoke tests before running comprehensive tests on full-sized datasets.
Stay informed on the status of your test chains with build and test notifications via email, Slack, or Google Chat, using our customizable messaging integrations.
Real-time QA analytics on your software or analysis pipelines.
Miqa provides instant QA test reports for every code change. Our interactive dashboard offers customizable data filtering and result visualization, allowing users to explore overall statistics or dive deep into individual datasets and results.
Automatically create interactive, exportable reports that provide immediate insights into your test outcomes.
Get a quick overview of test statuses—pass or fail—or dig deeper into the supporting evidence and raw data for thorough investigations.
Efficiently evaluate changes in performance across different versions, configurations, test datasets, or pipelines.
Determine if a new version enhances sensitivity at the cost of specificity or see how your pipeline measures up against industry standards.
Define the QA metrics and thresholds that matter most to your work, whether it's precision, recall, or concordance in variant calls across different versions.
Tailor assessments to align with your specific research and development goals.
Leverage interactive and ad hoc reporting capabilities to gain deeper insights into your QA data.
Compare and stratify result, analyze trends, and identify recurring patterns to uncover artifacts and pinpoint opportunities for test-driven optimization.
Miqa fosters collaboration among diverse stakeholders within your organization, providing full transparency throughout the entire bioinformatic software development lifecycle.
Optimize Your Software with Data-Driven Insights.
Utilize Miqa's comprehensive test data analytics to refine and enhance your bioinformatic tools.
Share and discuss performance metrics with fellow developers, engineers, managers, and end-users to drive continuous improvement.
Minimize surprises by testing your bioinformatic tools with each code change, on-demand, or on a predefined schedule. Strategically execute tests to ensure thorough and relevant coverage.
Easily incorporate test automation into your existing bioinformatics software development processes for uninterrupted workflows.
Automate testing after every code change to quickly validate enhancements or identify issues, ensuring rapid iteration and improvement.
Benchmark your tools using preferred evaluation metrics like accuracy, precision, and concordance. Compare performance across different versions, tools, and parameters to ensure optimal functionality.
Automatically generate comprehensive release documentation, detailing specifications, tests, and limitations to enhance transparency for both your team and end-users.
Select the Best Tools for Your Research.
Use Miqa to identify the most suitable bioinformatic tools, parameters, and configurations tailored to your specific use cases.
Analyze test outcomes, curate new test datasets, and suggest evidence-based improvements to confirm optimal tool performance for your research needs.
Instantly compare results or re-validate tools when software is upgraded or configurations change. Access up-to-date benchmarking statistics using your custom test data.
Identify trends, batch effects, and drift in analysis results across different time points, input datasets, and parameter changes. Ensure result consistency and pinpoint sources of variation.
Stay Informed with Real-Time Updates
Easily monitor the software development process with Miqa's intuitive test reports.
Track progress, software performance, and overall development status at any time.
Keep up with code changes and performance trends by accessing detailed test histories and reports directly within Miqa.
Provide immediate feedback to your team as they code, avoiding delays associated with waiting for post-development updates.
Identify trends, batch effects, and analysis result drift over time, input datasets, and parameter changes to ensure consistent outcomes and efficient task distribution.
For Scientists, Patients, and the Planet
Magna Labs was founded by a former Illumina bioinformatician and engineer who recognized a critical gap in the field of bioinformatics: the lack of adoption of conventional software development processes and technologies that have proven to drive growth, acceleration, and quality improvements in other industries.
In the bioinformatics industry, scientists often spend 20-60% of their time on software testing and quality assurance (QA) tasks. These tasks include longitudinal QA tracking, multi-tool benchmarking, re-analysis with updated software requirements, parameter tuning for analysis pipelines, sourcing test data, and troubleshooting software issues.
We believe these time-consuming tasks can be streamlined into an automated workflow, allowing bioinformatics teams to focus on innovation and discovery rather than manual QA activities.
At Magna Labs, our mission is to empower computational biology teams to confidently build and use bioinformatics tools. Whether you are developing production-grade bioinformatic tools or selecting the best tools and parameters for your sequencing data analyses, software quality is crucial.
By testing and validating bioinformatic pipelines early and frequently, scientists can:
We are a diverse team of biologists, bioinformaticians, and software engineers committed to providing user-friendly and collaborative software QA solutions to the computational biology community.
Having faced the technical and knowledge barriers to rigorous bioinformatic software testing ourselves, we are dedicated to changing the status quo with QA tools designed for diverse scientific teams and a wide range of omics applications.
Magna Labs offers a suite of best-in-class software QA tools for bioinformatics. Our platform includes:
Our tool suite offers software test automation, real-time benchmarking, centralized test management, data curation and synthesis, advanced data intelligence, and collaborative reporting.
Designed for interdisciplinary scientific teams, our bioinformatics QA platform supports deep customization to meet the demands of diverse and evolving biological data types and analysis methods.
Our accessible, collaborative, and flexible platform enables teams to explore test results and input data comprehensively, promoting evidence-based bioinformatic tool development.
By incorporating software development best practices into the omics field, we empower R&D teams to move quickly and confidently through the development process.
Our rigorous, systematic, and unbiased evaluation of bioinformatic tools sets new standards across the research industry and in regulatory assessments.