BC Mosaic, our AI-powered trusted research environment for life sciences and healthcare 

FAQs

BC Mosaic is a next-generation TRE designed to support secure, compliant research on complex clinical, real-world, and multi-omics data.

It reduces the time and effort typically required to deploy a regulatory-compliant research environment, allowing organizations to move from setup to active use in moments rather than weeks or months.

It supports both healthcare and life sciences across the full research lifecycle, from early feasibility and cohort discovery to advanced analytics and AI-driven studies, while maintaining strict data protection, auditability, and governance. 

What is BC Mosaic? 

BC Mosaic is a user-friendly, AI-powered Trusted Research Environment (TRE) designed for clinical, genomic, and multi-omics research. It combines data governance, secure access, analytics, and collaboration in a single platform that scales from small studies to large, multi-site, and international research programs.  

Why do life sciences and healthcare teams need a TRE? 

Research teams need secure access to sensitive data, the ability to analyze it efficiently, and confidence that governance, privacy, and compliance will not slow research down. In many projects, sensitive health data cannot be freely copied or moved due to governance, privacy, and regulatory constraints. A TRE provides a secure, governed environment where data can be analyzed in place, with controlled access, auditability, and data provenance. BC Mosaic was designed to make this approach practical, scalable, and deployable for research workflows. 

What’s different about BC Mosaic? 

Many existing TREs address specific aspects of secure data access or governance, but research projects working with real-world data and clinical trial data often encounter limitations when they need to support analytics, collaboration, and scale at the same time. In practice, teams may face long deployment timelines, complex customization, or high operational effort as projects move from feasibility to execution.  

BC Mosaic overcomes challenges by combining secure research workspaces, multi-tier role-based access, integrated analytics, support for multi-modal data, and federated research capabilities in a single environment. 

And because it’s easily configurable and delivered via AWS Marketplace, it reduces the time and internal effort typically required to deploy a compliant research environment. Users can be up and running in no time and don’t need to burden IT resources for support. 

If needed, we can also customize a TRE based on your specific needs, although development and deployment timelines and costs will be based on your requirements. 

What technologies power BC Mosaic’s analytical capabilities? 

The platform combines integrated analytical tools, AI-native workflows, and high-performance computing technologies. These include advanced acceleration technologies, such as NVIDIA, which help optimize compute-intensive analytics and AI workloads.

Together, these components enable efficient processing of large-scale, multimodal datasets while maintaining strict governance, privacy, and regulatory compliance. 

Who does BC Mosaic serve? 

BC Mosaic supports both healthcare organizations and life sciences teams. 

What types of data can be analyzed in BC Mosaic?  

BC Mosaic supports multimodal data analysis, including:  

What types of analysis can be performed in BC Mosaic? 

BC Mosaic supports cohort discovery and feasibility analysis, advanced analytics, reproducible workflows, genomic and multi-omics analysis at population scale, AI and machine learning development, and reporting and visualization. Researchers can use tools such as Jupyter Notebooks, R, Python, and Nextflow, and easily integrate in-house or third-party tools via APIs. 

Can teams use BC Mosaic to collaborate across organizations or countries? 

Yes. BC Mosaic supports federated research and analysis, allowing data to remain under local control while summary-level outputs and aggregated analyses are shared across teams, institutions, or countries. This enables collaboration with biotechs, academic partners, and consortia without compromising governance or compliance. Data always remains under your control and ownership. 

How does BC Mosaic support collaboration while keeping data secure?  

BC Mosaic uses multi-tier, role-based access controls to isolate data projects from each other. Data remains within its original institution, and only approved views and analyses are accessible based on project permissions and persona profiles.

How is sensitive data protected in BC Mosaic? 

Data visibility can be limited to summaries or aggregated views where required. The platform includes audit trails, chain of custody, and event logging, allowing data owners to retain control while supporting compliant research. 

How is BC Mosaic deployed? 

BC Mosaic is available via AWS Marketplace and supports cloud and private cloud deployments on AWS. It is delivered with standard capabilities ‘out of the box,’ is configurable to project needs, and can be deployed quickly. This significantly reduces set-up time and internal effort. Standard capabilities are available immediately, with configurable options to support projects of different sizes and complexity.  
 

What analytics and AI capabilities does BC Mosaic support?  

BC Mosaic supports advanced analytics and AI-driven research through:  

• Integrated analytical environments  
• AI and machine learning embedded across the research lifecycle  
• Support for reproducible workflows  

These capabilities enable researchers to move more efficiently from data exploration to insight generation within a secure governed environment. 

How does BC Mosaic scale? 

BC Mosaic is designed to scale from simple, exploratory studies to long-term, multi-site and international research programs. It supports large-scale multi-modal data, including clinical, genomic, imaging, and pathology data, and provides a consistent, secure research hub as projects evolve.  

In addition to its standard configuration, BC Mosaic supports flexible sizing and add-ons from BC Platforms and partners to address specialist research needs, including image analysis and other advanced capabilities. Custom configurations, including federated access models, can also be supported where required.  

Can data be harmonized and integrated in BC Mosaic? 

Yes. BC Mosaic is powered by BC Unify, our AI-driven data mastering platform. BC Unify ingests, harmonizes, and transforms fragmented clinical, real-world, and multi-omics data into research-ready information, enabling advanced analytics, federated research, and AI-driven workflows within the trusted research environment. 

Does BC Mosaic support regulatory and governance requirements? 

Yes. BC Mosaic supports compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, and European Health Data Space (EHDS) requirements where applicable. It provides transparency, auditability, and data provenance while protecting intellectual property and proprietary algorithms developed within the research environment.