Quick start: your first answer from your own lab data

Biocompile’s quick start takes you from sign-in to a first cited answer about your own data in six steps. The example is a growth experiment: optical density readings at 600 nm from a 96-well plate reader, exported as plate_reader_OD600_2026-03.csv.

For a guided tour inside the application instead, open Help → Replay onboarding.

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Get a first answer

1. Open Research Projects, choose New Project, enter a Project Name such as “Growth of strain K12-04 on xylose”, and choose Create Research Project. Result: Biocompile shows “Project created” and opens the new project.

2. If the assistant pane is hidden, choose Show assistant in the top bar. Then choose New conversation, open No project under the message box and select your project under Project context. Result: the menu shows “Project:” followed by your project’s name.

3. Drag plate_reader_OD600_2026-03.csv into the message box, or type @ and the name of a file already in the Knowledge Atlas, then ask a focused question and send it:

   Fit a logistic growth model to each well in plate_reader_OD600_2026-03.csv, report the maximum growth rate per well and flag wells that look contaminated.

   Result: the assistant shows each of its Work steps as it runs, then writes its answer.

4. Open a step to read its Request and Response, and follow the citations in the answer. Result: you see the code that produced each number. If the answer is not what you need, ask a sharper follow-up in the same conversation.

5. Choose Contribute work under the message box, then Prepare contribution. Result: “Preparing contribution” appears, followed by a review of every change the assistant proposes for the project.

6. Check each proposed change and choose Accept contribution. Result: Biocompile shows “Contribution approved and applied”, and the findings appear in the project.

Note: In Auto Mode the assistant can prepare and apply contributions without asking. Turn Auto Mode off beside the message box to review each one.

Next steps

• AI research assistant: ask your files and the literature
• Knowledge Atlas: upload, preview and edit lab files
• Research projects: hypotheses, evidence and decisions