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Pattern Bioscience

Pattern Bioscience is a privately held in vitro diagnostics company founded in 2016 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, developing a culture-free Single-Cell Microbiology system for rapid bacterial identification and antibiotic susceptibility testing (ID/AST). The platform isolates individual bacterial cells in picoliter-scale droplets and reads the metabolic patterns those cells produce over time, using machine learning to identify the pathogen and determine phenotypic susceptibility in hours instead of the days a culture workflow requires. The company holds FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for its Pneumonia Action Panel, raised $43M in Series D financing in November 2025 to pursue FDA clearance, and is backed by Illumina Ventures, Omnimed Capital, CARB-X, the AMR Action Fund and a $22.5M BARDA contract. Pattern is pre-commercial: it publishes a marketing and news site at pattern.bio and no public API, developer portal, SDK or machine-readable specification.

Pattern Bioscience is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Diagnostics, Healthcare, Medical Devices, and In Vitro Diagnostics.

Pattern Bioscience’s developer surface includes engineering blog, product news, support, and 15 more developer resources.

12.2/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0
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CompanyDiagnosticsHealthcareMedical DevicesIn Vitro DiagnosticsMicrobiologyAntimicrobial ResistanceLife SciencesMachine LearningAustin

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scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0
Composite quality — 12.2/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 1.1 / 17
Commercial Clarity 3.6 / 17
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11
Governance 0.0 / 10
Discoverability 4.9 / 9
Regulatory Posture 2.6 / 15
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Pattern Bioscience Domain Security

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Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

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Other 4

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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: pattern-bioscience
name: Pattern Bioscience
description: 'Pattern Bioscience is a privately held in vitro diagnostics company founded in 2016 and headquartered in Austin,
  Texas, developing a culture-free Single-Cell Microbiology system for rapid bacterial identification and antibiotic susceptibility
  testing (ID/AST). The platform isolates individual bacterial cells in picoliter-scale droplets and reads the metabolic patterns
  those cells produce over time, using machine learning to identify the pathogen and determine phenotypic susceptibility in
  hours instead of the days a culture workflow requires. The company holds FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for its Pneumonia
  Action Panel, raised $43M in Series D financing in November 2025 to pursue FDA clearance, and is backed by Illumina Ventures,
  Omnimed Capital, CARB-X, the AMR Action Fund and a $22.5M BARDA contract. Pattern is pre-commercial: it publishes a marketing
  and news site at pattern.bio and no public API, developer portal, SDK or machine-readable specification.'
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- Company
- Diagnostics
- Healthcare
- Medical Devices
- In Vitro Diagnostics
- Microbiology
- Antimicrobial Resistance
- Life Sciences
- Machine Learning
- Austin
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maintainers:
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