seqdesklab

Research group management

A shared place.
For your
research group.

Different people. Different questions. A lot to keep together. Lab brings your mail, tasks, projects and team conversations into one workspace.

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A complete flowering plant with fine leaves and branching roots
Budding yeast cells with translucent membranes and detailed interiors
A neuron with fine branching processes and a softly translucent cell body
A bacteriophage with a textured faceted capsid, ribbed tail and fine splayed tail fibres
Many fields. One shared place.
Mail, tasks & follow-upsPeople, projects & plansA place to talk science

01 / The work between the experiments

Your research.
In fewer places.

Tasks on a board. Notes in a document. Decisions in a chat. Follow-ups from a meeting. The research is connected. Give the work around it a shared place, too.

Six places to look. One research question.

seqdesk labOne shared research space
01Task boardsThe tasksTasksAn owner. A next step.
02Knowledge basesThe knowledgeProjectsA question. A shared plan.
03DocumentsThe notesNotepadThe thinking, kept together.
04Team chatThe conversationChannelsDiscussion beside the work.
05MeetingsThe meetingMeeting contextNotes, links and follow-ups.
06EmailThe follow-upMail → tasksThe source stays attached.
PeopleContextNext steps

Lab connects channels, tasks, shared files, project planning and notes. Meeting links and follow-ups can stay with the work they concern.

Concept illustration · From separate tools to shared research context.

Add-ons for your lab

Make room for the way
your lab works.

Plan seminars, maintain protocols and keep projects moving. Choose the tools your group needs, in one shared workspace.

SOPExample workspace
Protocols / Sample preparation

Sample preparation checklist

Shared with the lab · Updated by Anna Weber

Before starting, confirm the sample details and record the preparation in your lab notes.

Before you begin
A shared protocol, ready for the next person at the bench.Illustrative preview · Example data
Availability depends on your workspace setup

More ways to make Lab yours.
Links, working hours, invoices and timesheets.

SOP

Shared procedures and version history.

Lab Seminars

Talks, speakers and shared schedules.

Projects

Milestones, documents and related tasks.

Notepad

Notes and knowledge for your group.

Lab Links

The resources your lab uses every day.

Work Time

Keep track of your working day.

Invoice Tracker

Recurring invoices and receipts, together.

Timesheet Tracker

Monthly submissions and signature status.

02 / Science in the conversation

Bring the structure.
Keep the discussion.

Share a PDB file in the channel. Explore its 3D structure and discuss it in a thread, with the model and the questions together.

Open the example
A hemoglobin PDB structure shared in protein-structures, with the team's discussion in the adjacent thread.
Example conversation · PDB 4HHBOriginal capture ↗

03 / Intelligence, on your terms

On your Mac.
Connected to your lab.

Keep personal work on your Mac. Choose what to share with your group. Connect optional AI through a separate endpoint you control.

Personal / Native macOS app

On your Mac.
Under your control.

  • Private notes
  • Personal tasks
  • Mail + calendar

Your personal workspace lives on your device. Your mail and calendar connect to your existing mail server. Joining a lab doesn’t upload your mailbox or private notes to the shared workspace.

Local workspace · Your existing mail account
Shared / Your lab’s server

You choose what
goes to the lab.

  • Delegate tasks
  • Share files + notes
  • Discuss projects

Share the work your group needs. Assign tasks to colleagues and keep decisions with the project. The collaboration server can run on your institution’s own infrastructure, with access through Mac and web.

Your infrastructure · Your authorised team

AI help.
You choose where.

Get help sorting mail, writing drafts and planning next steps. Turn AI on when you want it, and choose where the information it needs is sent.

AI in LabRuns where you choose
01 / On your device

A local model.

Use an AI model running on your own Mac, for example with Ollama.

AI runs on your Mac
02 / At your institution

Your infrastructure.

Use an AI service provided by your institution, with access managed by your organisation.

AI runs at your institution
03 / With a provider

Your choice of service.

Connect to a supported AI provider you trust. Information you send is handled under that provider’s policies.

AI runs with your provider

Using AI does not share your personal work with your lab. The information needed for an AI request goes to the service you choose.

Explore Lab’s AI options ↗
The next direction / Shared-workspace AI

Help that understands the group’s shared research context. Designed to help people find information and follow through, with decisions staying with the team.

Across the life sciences

Your field is specific.
Working together is shared.

The science belongs in the conversation. Choose a tool to watch it in action, from the first interaction to the follow-up with a colleague.

Inside Lab chat / Choose a tool

# assay-development

Keep the calculation with the count.

Follow a dilution series, update an illustrative colony count, and see the CFU estimate recalculate from the recorded inputs.

SeqDesk Lab / Animated example

The dilution steps keep their transfer volumes. Change the illustrative count from 80 to 120. Keep the plated volume, calculation and original inputs with the discussion.

SeqDesk Lab dilution series with transfer volumes and a colony-count calculation

Current chat tools, with example data and conversations.
Pause or choose a scene to take a closer look.

Open the animated example

Bring your group to SeqDesk

A workspace for your lab.
A hand getting started.

Already have access?
Sign in to your workspace ↗

For Helmholtz-affiliated groups

Your research group.
Free hosted access.

Request a shared SeqDesk Lab workspace for your Helmholtz group, hosted at HZI. We’ll help you get started and confirm your group’s eligibility.

For research groups outside Helmholtz

Help shape SeqDesk Lab
for your research.

We’re looking for research groups to try SeqDesk Lab in their everyday work and share their feedback.

  • Your first year is free. Hosted access for your group.
  • We get you started. Setup is included.
  • Make it fit your research. One addon or customization included, with the scope agreed together.

Prefer email? pmu15@helmholtz-hzi.de

A shared workspace. A choice of home.

Together, on
your own terms.

Helmholtz groups and research pilots can request free hosted access. For other deployments, there are two ways to run Lab. We install and maintain Lab on your infrastructure, or host it for you. Choose the setup that fits your team.

Your people. Your projects. Your conversations.Drag the workspace or click a side
seqdesk labYour infrastructure
PeopleProjectsConversationsFiles + tasks
Yearly plan · Installed + maintained↗
Your infrastructure / Our care

A yearly plan.

For your institution’s shared workspace.

Priced for your setup and scope

At your institution.
Installed and maintained by us.

  • 01
    We get you running.

    We install and configure Lab on your institution’s infrastructure.

  • 02
    We keep it maintained.

    Ongoing maintenance and updates are included in the yearly plan.

  • 03
    You choose its home.

    Use your own servers or suitable infrastructure from a provider your institution trusts, such as Helmholtz Cloud ↗, subject to access and deployment requirements.

Data ownership & portability

Your data stays yours.
No lock-in.

Whether Lab runs on your infrastructure or ours, your data belongs to you. Export it in reusable formats so you can keep a copy, work with it in other tools or move it elsewhere. You stay in control of where your work goes next.

Made for the way you work / On request

A specific need?
Let’s build for it.

We can adapt Lab and create additional modules for research groups at your institution. Tell us what your work needs, and we’ll scope it together.

Custom development is scoped and quoted separately.

Both options host the shared Lab workspace. Your personal Mac workspace and your choice of AI endpoint remain separate.

A Mac app. A web companion.

Your work on Mac.
Your group, connected.

Lead the work from the native Mac app. Bring your group into the shared workspace on the web. Choose what to share; your mailbox and private records stay separate.

01 / macOS

For the whole picture.

Mail triage, project management and people records, alongside shared tasks and team chat.

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02 / Web

For working together.

Shared chat, tasks and a member directory. Scientific inserts bring more context to your conversations.

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