1. Many qualities turn an
ordinary person into a
leader, for Julie
surrounding herself with amazing,
positive people that are passionate and
want to make a difference, is one of the
most important steps to creating a
strong company and leadership.
Everyone gets curve balls thrown, but
how you deal with them is important.
Focussing on solutions; surrounding
yourself with people that want to find
solutions, and having great mutual,
loyal relationships with customers lead
to success.
Passionate About Work
Julie Bryant, Founder and CEO of
Rancho BioSciences, is passionate
about finding cures for patients faster
with minimized side effects. “These
people are our family members and
friends and I want to do anything I can
to eradicate disease and provide quality
of life longevity,” Julie says.
Julie is making an impact by bringing
together the best, passionate, caring,
intelligent, and innovative people in
the industry through Rancho
BioSciences. This includes a plethora
of experienced individuals like - data
scientists, analysts, statisticians,
bioinformaticians, and developers.
Rancho BioSciences attracts the most
amazing scientists who want to
contribute to humankind.
Composition of Great Experiences
Julie has 25 years of experience in Life
Sciences starting with Nature, Journal
of Science in London. In San Diego,
she worked for a molecular modeling
company called Biosym. Julie was one
of the pioneers in molecular modeling
growing the Asian and Latin American
marketplace and finally coming back to
the head office in San Diego. Julie then
moved to high throughput microarray
technology (expression and
genotyping) with Genometrix building
a blood bank of diseases in
The Woodlands, Texas. Analysis of
this kind of data was the next step, and
Julie helped spin out OminiViz where
they used text mining algorithms to
analyze categorical, numerical and text
data. Julie then founded the Bryant
Consulting Group that worked with
several companies: Kinematik for
ebooks, ChemDiv for building blocks
and chemistry services and GeneGo
for manually curated pathways. Julie,
Vice President built a group of
international sales people, customer
support, application scientists and IT as
GeneGo’s products MetaCore and
MetaBase became an industry
standard staple. Julie sold GeneGo to
Thomson Reuters in 2010. She was
also on the Board of FreedomVoice
which she helped be acquired by
GoDaddy this summer. Rancho
BioSciences, the Data Curation
Company, was founded at the end of
2012 by Bryant as a fee for Service
Company to support life science in
industry, hospitals, CRO’s,
foundations, Government, and
academia.
“Rancho Biosciences” The Scientific
Data Curation Company
Rancho BioSciences is a data curation
company spending the majority of their
time curating, organizing,
harmonizing, applying dictionaries and
ontologies for proprietary and public
data and information in the fields of
clinical, genomic, animal, assay and
chemistry data. They also support
industry and academic collaborations
by hosting and supporting data sharing
platforms.
Rancho BioSciences is also strong at
knowledge engineering by curating
knowledge from the literature on
genetic variants, microbiome, target
profiling, compounds, tox, disease,
chemical probes and more.
Rancho also provides information for
reports for clients such as CER’s,
genes and microbiome.
Rancho has an elite strong team of
analysts that work on analyzing
clinical trial data, supporting the
building of diagnostic panels, creating
genomic workflows, developing R
scripts and acting as an extension of
their clients’ working teams.
When they cannot find a tool or
platform for what they need to do in
the public domain, or commercially
then they develop it in-house via their
amazing group of developers who are
innovative, creative and best of all
efficient. They have a series of tools
for automating some aspects of
curation, workflows, integrations to
third party tools and de novo platforms
to curate and contain large bodies of
scientific information.
Possessing a Strong Cultural Code
Rancho’s strategy is to create an ideal
working environment for their team so
they can have flexibility in how they
work to fit in the complexities of
family life with work life. “We always
put our customers first, provide them
the best service possible-we only have
an A-Team, and we are very flexible as
we understand priorities change,” says
Bryant, Rancho CEO.
BioSciences has a strong 10
point culture code that was developed
at the beginning of Rancho, and they
always make sure that when they hire,
the person meets that culture code.
Julie asserts their culture code is to: be
passionate about what you do, make
the customers shine, be trustworthy,
honest and humble, think smart, do
remarkable things, continuous
education and empowerment of the
team, have a “can do” attitude and
celebrate the successes as a family.
Julie is sure that, Rancho will continue
to grow and be involved in projects
that will make a difference for human
betterment. They are leading the charge
on having pre-competitive content in
the public domain to be shared by the
life science community. This will allow
scientists to spend more time analyzing
and solving disease and health issues,
rather than preparing the data for
analysis, which is usually 80% of the
time of the complete process.
“I am passionate about
bringing tools, technology,
and data to scientists to
help them find cures faster
for patients. This is what
motivates me, I love my
job!”
“
“Our goal is to
help the life
science
community by
providing
curated data
ready for
analysis and
build tools to
take advantage
of the wealth of
scientific data
Julie Bryant:
Passionate About Curing People
Julie Bryant
Founder & CEO
Rancho BioSciences
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