What is new in Omicsboard Lab: a roundup of recent releases

Omicsboard Lab has grown a lot over the past few months. This is a plain roundup of what you can do today, grouped by the kind of work.

Analyze your own data

• Variant calling and annotation on your laptop. Quality-trim reads, call SNPs and indels against a gene, panel or a whole small virus or bacterial genome, then predict each variant's effect and check ClinVar. Whole human genomes still go to Galaxy, and Omi says so.
• Comparative and pan-genomics. Predict genes across a folder of genomes, cluster them into gene families, find the core and accessory genome, compare genomes by average nucleotide identity, and build a core-genome tree.
• Resistance and plasmid screening. Screen a genome against the CARD resistance database and the VFDB virulence database, and detect plasmid replicon types. Results cite the database versions used.
• 16S microbiome profiling against SILVA or NCBI 16S, with diversity measures, an interactive sunburst and a phylogenetic tree.
• Phylogenetics and selection. Alignment-based gene trees with bootstrap support, and dN/dS analysis.

Research and write-up

• Literature search and review across Europe PMC and OpenAlex, with papers you can open or download from the results.
• Manuscript and report drafting from your real analysis, with figures and tables included, references checked against CrossRef, and export to PDF or Word.

Bigger jobs and more places to run

• Guided Galaxy runs for work that needs heavy compute, with results pulled back into your notebook.
• A Linux version alongside Windows.
• A browser version of the lab, so you can start without installing anything.

Reliability work you will not see

A lot of recent effort went into making setup more dependable on machines with strict security software, making long analyses easier to resume after a restart, and stopping Omi from presenting numbers it did not compute. If you hit a rough edge, tell us. It shapes what we fix next.

You can find the full list of capabilities in the documentation.