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How to use LabPlanet.
Sign in
Use your email and password. If you do not have an account yet, create one from the sign-in page.
After the seed — the sample data loaded into the database — you can sign in as demo@labplanet.local with the password demo-labplanet. When demo login is turned on, Try the demo on the sign-in page uses that account.
Projects and entries
A project is a group of related pages. An entry is one page in that group.
In the sidebar, New project and New entry ask for a title. Open a project to see its entries, then open an entry to work in it. You can edit the title at the top. Changes save on their own after a short pause.
Blocks
An entry is a stack of blocks. A block is one piece of the page. At the bottom of an entry you can add:
- Text — notes you type
- Image — a picture from your computer
- Sheet — a spreadsheet
- Analysis — Python that runs on a saved copy of a sheet
Hover a block to see who last changed it. A person icon is a person. A robot icon is an AI author. Arrow icons move the block. A trash icon removes it after you confirm. A sheet can fill the screen while you edit it.
Phone capture
Open an entry, choose Insert, then Capture from phone. LabPlanet shows a QR code — a square code the phone camera can scan — and the same address as text. On the phone, take a photo and upload it. The computer shows what it read. The entry does not change until you click Accept into entry. Discard throws the photo away.
The code opens the public site, https://labplanet-dh-chi.vercel.app. The phone can be on cellular or another Wi-Fi network. The photo shows up on the computer because both use the same notebook.
Spreadsheet suggestions
Under a sheet, type what you want — for example, percent inhibition — and click Suggest. The formula appears inside the cells. A formula is a calculation the sheet can fill in. Nothing is written into the sheet until you accept it. Reject drops the suggestion.
Analysis
Add an Analysis block and choose a sheet.
- Freeze snapshot saves the sheet’s numbers as they are right now. A snapshot is that saved copy. After the first freeze, later edits to that sheet update the snapshot on their own.
- Type what you want in Request and click Generate. The code stays a proposal until you accept it. Reject writes nothing.
- Run executes that Python in your browser.
- Reproduce runs the same code again on the frozen snapshot and tells you whether the result matches. Check current sheet compares the live sheet with the saved run. Reproduce still uses the snapshot.
Plate reader
Insert a plate reader block when an entry needs one. Upload a CSV with time, well, series, condition, replicate, and value, or start a simulated live read. The chart shows mean and standard deviation. A simulated stream is labeled as simulated.
Dictation
Insert, then Dictate. This works in Chrome. Speak, then pause. The words become a text block written by you. The microphone audio stays in the browser.
Review, activity, and export
Review entry lists advisory findings and does not change the entry. The robot button next to it asks for one analysis of the whole entry. Nothing is written until you accept, and Accept adds one analysis block at the end. AI activity lists each model call. Download bundle saves the entry as a zip of JSON, CSV, Python, and images.
Sharing and search
The project owner can invite an existing account by email as a viewer or an editor, and can rename the project. Comments open to the right of a block and refresh every few seconds. The sidebar search box finds entry titles and text. Failed captures lists rejected proposals, failed phone captures, failed runs, and reproductions that did not match.
History
History lists saved versions of the entry with the time and the person who made each change. Open a version to see what changed, and restore an older version if you need it. The History and Runs panel on the right can be hidden with the panel button in the entry header, and opened again the same way.
Synthetic data
Some projects are sample data. Those show a bar that says SYNTHETIC DATA. Synthetic means the numbers were made up for the demo, not collected in an experiment.