TetraScience disrupts scientific discovery by automating in the cloud Data ‘plumbing’ helped get the COVID vaccine ready quicker than most people thought possible. Automation, along with a cloud-first server environment and collaborative networks, are behind an unusually speedy vaccine rollout for COVID, explains a life sciences data-cloud scientist. The reason vaccine-maker Moderna Inc., for example, was able to successfully shift gears from sequence to its initial vaccine in 50 or 60 days was because of it, according to Mike Tarselli (pictured), chief scientific officer of TetraScience Inc. The company operates a research and development data cloud for life sciences. Speed requirements aren’t going away. “That kind of delivery is what the market will become accustomed to,” he said.