A Message from Our Founder

Stranded in the Galaxy?
It’s exactly where you want to be. We can help you get there—and stay there.

Midnight Mechanism was built for genomic workloads that don’t fit neatly into commodity cloud platforms. We don’t rebrand hyperscale infrastructure. We design, own, and operate high-performance computing (HPC) systems purpose-built for genomics.

That choice is both intentional and difficult.

Genomic analysis is memory-intensive, data-heavy, and inherently iterative. When performance, cost predictability, and reproducibility matter, abstraction becomes a liability. By self-hosting the Galaxy ecosystem on dedicated HPC infrastructure, we give researchers a platform that behaves like a lab instrument—not a billing experiment.

This work is personal.

I’ve spent years working at the intersection of biostatistics, survival analysis, and large-scale computation, building and validating real pipelines on real data, including The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) breast cancer cohorts. Midnight Mechanism exists because those workflows deserve infrastructure that understands them—and, when off-the-shelf solutions fall short, well-validated, selectively customized pipelines.

Together, let’s make sense of your strands—and separate signal from noise with systems designed to carry the weight.

— David Pratt, Founder
Midnight Mechanism