The platform was developed by physician scientists from Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital to help researchers overcome technical obstacles and accelerate their early stage and translational research. Skygenic's interface, features, and workflows allow scientists to perform their own analysis without the need for programming skills or staff bioinformaticians. By offloading much of the analysis workload, Skygenic enables more research to occur at a lower cost and in less time than by relying on a bioinformatician alone. The cloud-based platform requires no local computing power or large storage space, making it an accessible solution for academic, hospital, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical organizations.