IDBS Polar Accelerator library

The IDBS Polar Accelerator Library helps teams start scientific projects faster with customizable, pre-configured workflows and insight applications that ensure consistency, quality, and efficiency from day one. By eliminating the need to build tools from scratch, it reduces manual effort and accelerates setup, enabling teams to generate reliable, reproducible insights across the drug development lifecycle.

And that’s just the beginning. IDBS Polar is built on a flexible, low-code/no-code platform that can support a wide range of scientific workflows — far beyond the Accelerator Library. Whether you’re starting from a template or building your own processes, Polar adapts to your needs without the burden of complex IT deployments.

Workflow Accelerators

Lab operations Equipment and Consumables Setup, Checks & Calibrations Maintain confidence in experimental results with streamlined equipment and consumable verification and setup workflows. These accelerators ensure instruments and consumables are functioning, calibrated, and properly configured before use—minimizing downtime, reducing risk of error, and supporting compliance with regulatory standards.
Method & Sample Preparation Streamline experimental execution with coordinated preparation workflows for methods, plates, materials, and samples. By integrating procedural guidance, coated plate setup, and sample dilution and measurement steps, these workflows reduce manual effort, improve reproducibility, and accelerate time to analysis—enabling scientists to focus on data quality and decision-making.
Recipe & Reagent Management Ensure consistent reagent quality with recipe-driven preparation workflows. Through a complimentary set of workflows, users can both create and manage lab recipes with precision and flexibility, and execute on recipes in a consistent, standardized manner – reducing errors and supporting reproducibility.
PreClinical Analyte Solution Preparation: From Recipe to Execution Accelerate and standardize analyte solution preparation, and recipe management. By integrating recipe planning with tailored execution workflows for both liquid and solid sources, these accelerators streamline routine operations, reduce manual errors, and ensure consistency and compliance—empowering scientists to focus more on science and less on documentation.
Ligand Binding Assay Execution, Validation & Reporting Accelerate ligand binding assay workflows with integrated planning, execution, and ICH M10-compliant reporting. These accelerators reduce manual data handling, ensure consistency across runs, and support faster, traceable, and regulatory-ready bioanalytical studies.
DMPK Study Design & Analysis Streamline both in vivo and in vitro DMPK workflows, enabling seamless setup, execution, and analysis of pharmacokinetic studies. By automating dosage calculations, sample tracking, and data integration across study phases, it enhances accuracy, reduces manual effort, and ensures traceability from experiment design to analytical results.
Clinical Cell Line Development Accelerate and standardize cell line development steps from transfection to clone selection, from pool expansion to cell banking across vials, plates and flasks. Teams can design, capture and analyze these processes with our workflows to determine productivity, product growth, product quality, and monoclonality. Reduce manual data handling, automate calculations and ensure traceability between clones while establishing stable cell lines and selecting optimal clones.
Media Preparation and Process Optimization With workflows to prepare media, run small scale cultivations and perform controlled bioreactor studies, upstream development teams can test various media formulations, cultivation strategies and feeding strategies. These accelerator workflows enable consistent documentation, ensure consistency across processes and offer real-time monitoring, to reliably design the best conditions for growth, productivity and scalability.
Seed Train Expansion and Scale Up Streamline initial expansion to final seed preparation to production run execution with workflows designed to help teams scale up production scale up inoculum in a stepwise manner. These accelerators support the upstream process lifecycle across flasks, bioreactors and other vessels of choice – with consistent documentation, automated calculations and real-time monitoring for the development of robust, reproducible, scalable methods to generate inoculum.
Harvest and Recovery With workflows to separate intracellular and extracellular products from cultures, extract and begin to purifiy material, teams can leverage these workflows to streamline these processes and maintain traceability between cultures, supernatants and harvested material. From centrifugation to filtrations to lysate preparation to protein A chromatography, these workflows reduce manual data handling, ensure consistency across processes and offer real-time monitoring for process insight.
Purification and Polishing Accelerate and standardize purification steps to remove impurities, trace contaminants and aggregates through workflows for chromatography, viral inactivation, viral filtration, UF/DF and more. Leverage these workflows to reduce manual data handling, ensure consistency and traceability across procedures and materials and reliably design the best purification strategy.
Analytical Analytical Assay Execution & Data Capture Standardize and streamline analytical testing across development with workflows for several key analytical techniques including ELISAs, HPLC etc . From workflows for purity, impurity and potency assessment to identity confirmation to physicochemical characterization, these workflows streamline the execution of quantitative and qualitative assays, ensure reproducible results across assays and accelerate product and process insight.

Insight Application Accelerators

Lab operations Project Tracking Gain full visibility into project records and their lifecycle through a series of applications designed to streamline project tracking and performance analysis. With interactive dashboards focused on lifecycle statuses and failure trends, exceptions and business rule deviations, teams can filter by date, record type, or user to identify blocked records, monitor failure rates, and assess project health at a glance.
Platform usage Monitor and optimize your organization’s adoption of the Polar platform by visualizing platform usage across departments and timeframes. With insights into user behavior, experiment activity, workflow efficiency, and record trends, teams can identify adoption patterns, streamline operations, and make data-driven decisions that enhance scientific productivity.
Lab monitoring With applications to track equipment usage, maintenance and calibration schedules, material consumption and inventory genealogy, teams can quickly visualize and filter through the information they need – making it easier to manage lab inventory, optimize operations, mitigate risks and drive informed decision-making.
QbD Experimental design Accelerate process optimization with a suite of applications that apply Design of Experiments (DOE) to systematically explore the impact of process parameters on critical quality attributes – with dedicated tools for Bioreactor execution. From building experimental designs to analyzing statistical models, teams can uncover key drivers of performance and ensure robust, data-driven decisions. With support for multiple DOE methodologies, manual and file-based data entry, and rich visualizations—including ANOVA tables, Q-Q plots, and histograms—these tools enable a Quality by Design (QbD) approach that enhances process understanding, consistency, and continuous improvement.
Data analysis and modeling Optimize process performance with a suite of advanced analytics applications designed to uncover insights from complex, time-series, and multivariate data. Whether comparing equipment runs, analyzing process variability, or exploring experimental designs, these tools empower teams to make faster, data-driven decisions that enhance quality and efficiency. Teams can use time series visualizations to explore control parameters, process variables, and quality attributes across campaigns—identifying trends, correlations, and anomalies with ease, and apply multivariate techniques like PCA and PLS to trace root causes, monitor variability, and strengthen process understanding. Together, these applications provide a powerful foundation for proactive process optimization, enabling teams to troubleshoot issues, refine operations, and ensure consistent product outcomes.
PreClinical BioAnalysis Studies Transform how you interpret bioanalytical data with the BioA Study Report—a powerful tool that turns complex analytical run data into clear, interactive visualizations. With dedicated views for all samples within a study, sample comparisons and concentrations and exception management, teams can quickly pinpoint reassays, monitor trends, identify mistakes to course-correct, and make confident, data-driven decisions.
Clinical Cell Line Development With applications to track cell culture lineage, visualize genealogical links and interrogate key cell viability metrics, users can quickly uncover the history of a cell line, understand relationships across cultures at any point in the cell line development process and compare cell viability parameters across time. The standardized data model ensures relationships are built  between parent and child cultures to continuously maintain the lineage of descendants and ancestors – streamlining cell line history report creation.
Seed Train Expansion and Scale Up Connect bioreactor data against a standardized data model to monitor and compare bioreactor runs across experiments and scale. With powerful interactive visualizations to compare parameters, process variables, and quality attributes, scientists can easily and explore process performance across bioreactors – both for monitoring current processes and comparing across historical runs.
Recovery and Purification Streamline the analysis the analysis and optimization of preparative chromatography workflows, connected via a standardized data model to compare across experiments and runs. Interactive views with customizable charts and graphs, enable multi-run, multi-curve analysis comparing parameter performance and detector data – giving users the insight they need to optimize recovery and purification processes and enhance process productivity
BioProcess Studies Unlock end-to-end visibility into bioprocess campaigns with the BioP Study Report, consolidating data from Cell Line Development to Analytical assays. From high-level campaign summaries to detailed bioreactor comparisons and downstream analytics, each view is tailored to provide domain-specific insights. Teams can trace lineage, monitor process performance, analyze process trends, track assay outcomes, and centralize exception reporting — giving users the insight they need to uncover operational inefficiencies, ensure data integrity, and drive continuous improvement across the entire bioprocess workflow.

Modalities coverage

Workflow Accelerator Category Workflow Accelerator Category Monoclonal Antibodies (mAb) Cell & Gene Therapy (CGT) mRNA Therapeutics Oligonucleotide Therapies Plasmid DNA Small Molecules ADC
Lab operations Equipment and Consumables Setup, Checks & Calibrations Maintain confidence in experimental results with streamlined equipment and consumable verification and setup workflows. These accelerators ensure instruments and consumables are functioning,
calibrated, and properly configured before use—minimizing downtime, reducing risk of error, and supporting compliance with regulatory standards.		 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Method & Sample Preparation Supporting experimental execution are a series of workflows for the preparation and setup of methods,plates, materials and samples. From procedural guidance to coated plate setup to sample dilutions and measurements, these workflows streamline lab processes by reducing manual effort, improving reproduceability and accelerating time to analysis. Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Recipe & Reagent Management Ensure consistent reagent quality with recipe-driven preparation workflows. Through a complimentary set of workflows, users can both create and manage lab recipes with precision and flexibility, and execute on recipes in a consistent, standardized manner – reducing errors and supporting reproduceability. Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
PreClinical Analyte Solution Preparation: From Recipe to Execution Accelerate and standardize analyte solution preparation, and recipe management. By integrating recipe planning with tailored execution workflows for both liquid and solid sources, these accelerators streamline routine operations, reduce manual errors, and ensure consistency and compliance—empowering scientists to focus more on science and less on documentation. Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Ligand Binding Assay Execution, Validation & Reporting Accelerate ligand binding assay workflows with integrated planning, execution, and ICH M10-compliant reporting. These accelerators reduce manual data handling, ensure consistency across runs, and support faster, traceable, and regulatory-ready bioanalytical studies. Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
DMPK Study Design & Analysis Streamline both in vivo and in vitro DMPK workflows, enabling seamless setup, execution, and analysis of pharmacokinetic studies. By automating dosage calculations, sample tracking, and data integration across study phases, it enhances accuracy, reduces manual effort, and ensures traceability from experiment design to analytical results. Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Clinical Cell Line Development Accelerate and standardize cell line development steps ftom transfection to clone selection , from pool expansion to cell banking across vials, plates and flasks. Teams can design, capture and analyze these processes with our workflows to determine productivity, product growth, product quality, and monoclonality. Reduce manual data handling, automate calculations and ensure traceability between clones while establishing stable cell lines and selecting optimal clones. Yes Yes Yes Yes
Media Preparation and Process Optimization With workflows to prepare media, run small scale cultivations and perform controlled bioreactor studies, upstream development teams can test various media formulations, cultivation strategies and feeding strategies. These accelerator workflows enable consistent documentation, ensure consistency across processes and offer real-time monitoring, to reliably design the best conditions for growth,productivity and scalability. Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Seed Train Expansion and Scale Up Streamline initial expansion to final seed preparation to production run execution with our workflows, designed to help teams scale up producton scale up inoculum in a stepwise manner. These accelerators support the upstream process lifecycle across flasks, bioreactors and other vessels of choice – with consistent documentation, automated calcuations and real-time monitoring for the development of robust, reproducible, scalable methods to generate inoculum. Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Harvest and Recovery With workflows to separate intracellular and extracellular products from cultures, extract and begin to purifiy material, teams can leverage our workflows to streamline these processes and maintain traceability between cultures, supernatants and harvested material. From centrifugation to filtrations to lysate preparation to protein A chromatography, these workflows reduce manual data handling, ensure consistency across processes and offer real-time monitoring for process insight. Yes Yes Yes Yes

Purification and Polishing		 Accelerate and standardize purification steps to remove impurities, trace contaminants and aggregates through workflows for chromatography, viral inactivation, viral filtration, UF/DF and more. Leverage these workflows to reduce manual data handling, ensure consistency and traceability across procedures and materials and reliably design the best purification strategy. Yes Yes Yes Yes
Analytical Analytical Assay Execution & Data Capture Standardize and streamline analytical testing across development with workflows for several key analytical techniques including ELISAs, HPLC etc . From workflows for purity, impurity and potency assessment to identity confirmation to physicochemical characterization, these workflows streamline the execution of quantitative and qualitative assays, ensure reproducible results across assays and accelerate product and process insight. Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Modalities coverage

 

Lab operations

Equipment & Consumables Setup, Checks & Calibrations

Streamlined equipment and consumable verification and setup workflows. Ensures instruments and consumables are functioning, calibrated, and properly configured before use—minimizing downtime, reducing risk of error, and supporting compliance with regulatory standards.

mAbCGTmRNAOligoPlasmid DNASmall MoleculesADC
Method & Sample Preparation

Workflows for the preparation and setup of methods, plates, materials, and samples. From procedural guidance to coated plate setup to sample dilutions and measurements—reduces manual effort, improves reproducibility, and accelerates time to analysis.

mAbCGTmRNAOligoPlasmid DNASmall MoleculesADC
Recipe & Reagent Management

Recipe-driven preparation workflows for consistent reagent quality. Create and manage lab recipes with precision and flexibility, and execute them in a standardized manner—reducing errors and supporting reproducibility.

mAbCGTmRNAOligoPlasmid DNASmall MoleculesADC

 

Preclinical

Analyte Solution Preparation: From Recipe to Execution

Accelerate and standardize analyte solution preparation and recipe management. Integrates recipe planning with tailored execution workflows for both liquid and solid sources—reduces manual errors and ensures consistency and compliance.

mAbCGTmRNAOligoPlasmid DNASmall MoleculesADC
Ligand Binding Assay Execution, Validation & Reporting

Integrated planning, execution, and ICH M10-compliant reporting for ligand binding assays. Reduces manual data handling, ensures consistency across runs, and supports faster, traceable, regulatory-ready bioanalytical studies.

mAbCGTmRNAOligoPlasmid DNASmall MoleculesADC
DMPK Study Design & Analysis

Streamlines in vivo and in vitro DMPK workflows—setup, execution, and analysis of pharmacokinetic studies. Automates dosage calculations, sample tracking, and data integration across study phases for full traceability from experiment design to analytical results.

mAbCGTmRNAOligoPlasmid DNASmall MoleculesADC

 

Clinical

Cell Line Development

Standardizes steps from transfection to clone selection, pool expansion, and cell banking across vials, plates, and flasks. Automates calculations and ensures traceability between clones while establishing stable cell lines and selecting optimal candidates.

mAbCGTPlasmid DNAADC
Media Preparation and Process Optimization

Prepare media, run small-scale cultivations, and perform controlled bioreactor studies. Test media formulations, cultivation strategies, and feeding strategies with consistent documentation and real-time monitoring to design the best conditions for growth, productivity, and scalability.

mAbCGTmRNAOligoPlasmid DNASmall MoleculesADC
Seed Train Expansion and Scale Up

From initial expansion to final seed preparation and production run execution. Supports the upstream process lifecycle across flasks, bioreactors, and other vessels with consistent documentation, automated calculations, and real-time monitoring.

mAbCGTmRNAOligoPlasmid DNASmall MoleculesADC
Harvest and Recovery

Separate intracellular and extracellular products from cultures and begin purifying material. From centrifugation and filtrations to lysate preparation and protein A chromatography—maintains traceability between cultures, supernatants, and harvested material.

mAbCGTPlasmid DNAADC
Purification and Polishing

Remove impurities, trace contaminants, and aggregates via chromatography, viral inactivation, viral filtration, UF/DF, and more. Ensures consistency and traceability across procedures and materials to reliably design the best purification strategy.

mAbCGTPlasmid DNAADC

 

Analytical

Analytical Assay Execution & Data Capture

Standardizes analytical testing across development with workflows for ELISAs, HPLC, and more. Covers purity, impurity, potency, identity confirmation, and physicochemical characterization—ensuring reproducible results and accelerating product and process insight.

mAbCGTmRNAOligoPlasmid DNASmall MoleculesADC