Every specimen in the project, traceable both ways

The Connections tab maps everything joined to a sample: the one it came from, and the photos, image analysis, cytometry, FCS files, data tables, figures, protocol runs, notebook pages, inventory, orders, and tasks that came out of it. Chips above the map narrow it to one kind, and clicking a card redraws the map around that node. Set parent sample records where the material came from, and Link attaches anything else you can search for in the project.

Cell cultures carry a bench log. Log action records a feed, a split, an observation, a thaw, a freeze, a mycoplasma test, or a discard, and several of those keep the sample true as a by-product: a split moves the passage up one and clears the confluence, a definitive mycoplasma result writes the status, a discard marks it disposed. A contamination flag shows red on the log where the whole team sees it, and correcting an entry undoes what it wrote.

Design paints roles, Prep sets concentrations, Transfer pulls wells from a parent plate, and Results takes the reader's file. The map colors by role during Design, by concentration during Prep, and as a heatmap of the readings during Results, so the same wells answer a different question at each step. A step shows as done from the plate's own data, and you can open any of them in any order.

Select a row, set the starting concentration, and give a fold factor. Each well takes the one before it divided by that factor, in reading order, and every well then shows what it holds. Below sits a dilution calculator as a scratch pad: give it a stock, a target, and a final volume and it says how much stock and how much diluent to combine, leaving the layout alone.