Laboratory and bioinformatics software
Exact tools for work that has to stand up later.
Copper Scientific is a software house for individual scientific jobs: the plate map before you pipette, the indexes that have to demultiplex, the filename a pipeline will actually accept. Each product is complete for its job, explicit about its limits, and built so the result can live with the experiment.
Practice
The standard we hold a tool to before it is published.
Self-service
A trained scientist can find a tool, run it, and keep the export—without an account or an implementation project.
Local by default
The plate planner and index collision checker parse tables in the browser. Run-folder repairs will run as a local program. We do not collect research payloads for analytics.
Reproducible
Given the same inputs, seed, and version, the result is the same. The export records enough to inspect that later.
Scientifically restrained
These products are not for patient-identifiable data. Ambiguous edits are reported, not applied in silence.
Current work
96-well plate layout planner
From a sample table, the planner assigns a 96-well layout under the constraints you set: edge wells, controls, replicates, grouping, and randomization. It is free, including export. Rules that cannot be met are listed on the report.
Tools
Two live browser tools today: the plate planner and an Illumina index collision checker. File Fixer is next, starting with a downloadable Cell Ranger FASTQ renamer. Each has its own page.
Available
Plate Planner
Generate a valid 96-well plate layout from your samples and constraints, then export a map you can use.
Open the tool →
Available
Index Collision Checker
Check Illumina i7/i5 barcodes for duplicates, Hamming collisions, reverse complements, and combinatorial dual-index reuse—then export the report.
Open the tool →
Coming soon
File Fixer
Validate and repair scientific files against the destination that rejected them. Run-folder jobs ship as a local program so the files on disk actually change.
Read the plan →
The company
A software house, not a laboratory platform.
We do not sell a LIMS, an inventory system, or an implementation project. Copper Scientific publishes tools that a scientist can use unattended, inspect, and file with the work. That discipline is the brand. It will still be the brand when the catalog is longer.