Domino Data Lab and Appsilon have partnered to help life sciences firms move open-source AI, R and Python workflows into compliant production, bridging the gap between AI development and regulated deployment.
Domino Data Lab has partnered with Appsilon to help life sciences organisations move open-source AI into regulated production environments. The collaboration combines Domino’s AI platform with Appsilon’s expertise in open-source software and AI solutions for pharmaceutical and life sciences companies, enabling organizations to take AI projects from development to compliant deployment.
The partnership addresses a major industry challenge where AI projects built with open-source tools often fail to reach production because organizations lack validated infrastructure that meets regulatory requirements.
Joint customers will gain access to Appsilon’s expertise in open-source R and Python development, SCE deployment and SAS-to-open-source migration, alongside Domino’s built-in governance and compliance capabilities. The companies say the combined offering provides a complete workflow from model development to governed production.
Domino’s extensions framework also allows partners to integrate their own tools directly into the platform. As part of the collaboration, Appsilon has launched Axon.R, the first partner-built extension for Domino. The R package validation tool is built using the R Validation Hub’s risk-based methodology, enabling compliance-ready package validation within the AI development environment.
“Most life sciences organizations have data scientists who are ready to build. What’s missing is a validated environment that lets them get work into production,” said Ricky Mann, Chief Solutions Officer, Domino Data Lab. “Appsilon has spent years solving that implementation problem for some of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. This partnership means Domino customers can tap that expertise directly inside the platform, with the governance regulators require.”
“The bottleneck is infrastructure that can’t keep pace with what teams are trying to build,” said Olga Mierzwa-Sulima, CEO of Appsilon. “What they need is a governed path to production that holds up in an audit. Domino is the right platform to deliver that at scale, and this partnership means Appsilon’s implementation expertise is now part of what Domino customers can access.”
