Overview
Quilt Startup 5 is a scientific data management system (SDMS) designed for early-stage biotech and life sciences teams running on AWS. Get the full power of the Quilt data platform for up to 5 users - ideal for small research teams that need enterprise-grade data management from day one.
Early-stage biotech teams generate critical research data from the start, but most data management solutions are priced for large enterprises. Quilt Startup 5 gives small teams the same capabilities that leading pharma organizations rely on, at a scale that fits.
What You Get: A private, secure data catalog deployed in your own AWS account. Organize research data into versioned, immutable packages with rich metadata. Search across all your S3 data instantly. Enforce data quality with configurable workflows. Maintain audit trails for regulatory preparedness.
Core Capabilities: Versioned data packages with full history and audit trails. Metadata-driven search powered by Amazon OpenSearch. Configurable workflows, roles, and policies for data governance. Integration with Jupyter notebooks, ELNs, and LIMS via immutable S3 URIs and a Python SDK.
Why Start Early: Biotech teams that establish good data practices early avoid costly remediation later. Quilt Startup 5 helps you build a clean, well-documented data foundation from your first experiment - so when you scale, your data scales with you.
Secure by Design: Deploys entirely within your AWS account as a CloudFormation stack on Amazon ECS. Your data stays in your VPC. Powered by Amazon S3, Amazon OpenSearch, and Amazon Athena.
Ready to grow? Upgrade seamlessly to the full Quilt Data Platform (Pay-as-you-Go) as your team and data expand.
Learn more at https://quilt.bio
Highlights
- Enterprise-grade data management for early-stage biotech - deploy a private, secure catalog in your VPC for up to 5 researchers.
- Build regulatory-ready data practices from day one: versioned packages, metadata search, audit trails, and configurable governance workflows.
- Start small, scale seamlessly - upgrade to the full Quilt Data Platform as your team and data grow, with no migration required.
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Providing AI/ML Capabilities, Checksum and Search updates, and Security Updates,
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Before launching Quilt Business (1) request or import an SSL certificate for your region of choice and an SSL certificate in us-east-1 in AWS Certificate Manager and (2) locate the necessary credentials to update DNS records in your domain. Use CloudFormation to create a stack from this template: s3://quilt-marketplace/quilt-business-454c9d5.yaml. During the configuration process, you'll need to choose and enter: (1-3) credentials for the first admin account, (8-10) bucket title, icon URL and description, (11) SSL certificate ARN for the web catalog (us-east-1), (12) SSL certificate ARN for the ELB (installation region), (13) Quilt web host (the domain name for Quilt on your company's domain), (14) a password for the auth database, (15) name of the S3 bucket to be connected to Quilt, (17) name of a new bucket to be created to hold configuration files, (18) whether or not to create default roles to read and write the bucket. Click Next, then Create. Once the stack is complete, open the Outputs tab. Find: CloudFrontDomain, LoadBalancerDNSName, and RegistryHost. These values still need to be mapped to user-facing URLs via DNS. 11. Go to your DNS service. Create two CNAME records: (QuiltWebHost) to the CloudFrontDomain, and (RegistryHost) to the LoadBalancerDNSName. See: https://quiltdocs.gitbook.io/t4/references/technical-reference#deploying-the-t4-catalog-on-aws
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The data hub I've been looking for
Quilt allows my team at DSP Concepts to focus on solving customer problems instead of data versioning problems. It is well established at this point that data quality is the foundation of serious and well performing data teams. Organization is key to building and retaining value in high quality data over time. Quilt solves this problem head on giving you a reliable single source of data truth with a suite of features to inspect the data and its documentation easily. This in turn allows each member of my team to find data in a self serve fashion without having to rely on institutional knowledge that only one team member, if any, might have depending on how long ago the data was collected, cleaned, processed and labelled.
A necessity for every data-driven company
Quilt is an indispensable tool for anyone that wants to properly manage their data in AWS. A key element to Quilt is that the programmatic interface is intuitive and flexible, offering multiple ways to integrate it into the data analysis workflow (python, R, command line). As only a handful of Quilt functions provide a majority of core functionality, there is not an overwhelming learning curve to get started, but many additional features improve the usability (e.g., reading data directly into memory, single file installation). Beyond the programmatic functionality, the Quilt web-based interface is extremely useful for browsing files and packages and switching between the different versions. I would highly recommend integrating Quilt into your data science workflow.
Missing tool in Data Science pipeline
Quilt simplified our flow in data maintenance and versioning. Now, it became extremely easy to keep track of changes in a dataset and refer in a reproducible manner a specific revision without worrying if someone overwrites the data. We have it already integrated into our flow, so the dataset updates interfere with model building no more.
Quilt team provides us with ongoing support. Bugs happen in every software, but in the case of small bug we found, we received a fixup in no time, so we could smoothly continue our work.
We spotted some drawbacks in Quilt Teams some time ago. These are mostly resolved here, and remaining "wishes" are on the roadmap. It's really nice that devs listen to our needs!
What we love most about Quilt, is the caching feature. We reduced data transfer costs while keeping low complexity of scripts.
Overall grade is 5/5 since that tool was missing heavily in the flow we had for Machine Learning. At this moment we use it also for versioning models (especially that we generate models in a bunch of formats each time) and Jupyter Notebooks (for which Git isn't the best option)