What Arcadia Science does
Arcadia Science is an Emeryville, California-based organization that aims to make biological discovery more systematic by using evolution-driven and experiment-in-the-loop methods, while publishing across the research cycle with an emphasis on open access to materials and methods. Its platform materials describe an iterative loop of computational prediction and experimental validation, alongside technology development (assays and organism-agnostic tools) and targeted efforts such as matching disease biology to more human-relevant organisms. Arcadia also publishes open resources—such as laboratory workflow utilities and protocols—alongside research outputs, including “negative data” and “icebox” style experiments to document what was tried and why it was paused. In parallel, Arcadia provides “Data Hub,” a lightweight system for capturing and making lab instrument runs findable and reusable, with interfaces including a web app, a REST API, and a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for AI agents.