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DNA sequences, Otto in the Analysis tool, reagent import from an Excel template

2026.10.18-otto-analyse-sequences-adn-modele-reactifs · 2026-10-19

Delivered build : 549e7b481f1c6a7d3ae406fc6f4e974bbe7ec844

Changes

  • New Sequences module: an editor for plasmids and versioned sequences, with annotations, primer design, codon optimisation, alignments and links to samples.
  • BLAST runs from a sequence to a public sequence-database service in the United States after ticking a box on every submission, since the sequence leaves Biotraxion; each submission is recorded in the audit log.
  • Otto reads the bases of a region and its translation, designs and adds primers, optimises the codons of a CDS on either strand, runs a BLAST and links a sequence to a sample. Every write goes through a confirmation and creates a new version.
  • When Otto creates a version, the open editor loads it by itself; if it holds unsaved changes, it offers to load it instead of overwriting them.
  • Otto drives the Analysis tool: workbooks, members, tables, columns, analyses, graphs and their settings (titles, axes, scales). Every action goes through a confirmation card, and table edits are applied from an Apply or Ignore banner.
  • Reagents can be imported from a downloadable Excel template, without AI: each column is taken as is and errors are reported row by row.
  • A reagent's CAS number is saved on import and when proposals are approved; Excel dates are read correctly and a semicolon inside a cell no longer splits the row.
  • Reagent import messages follow the interface language.
  • The animated screensaver is removed and its delay no longer appears in settings; locking after inactivity is unchanged.
  • After "new conversation", Otto takes the current page as context again.

Known limitations

  • Otto cannot read a region spanning the origin of a circular plasmid in a single call.
  • .ab1 chromatograms have not been tested yet, and the CHO codon table relies on a small number of CDS.
  • The CAS number is not shown on a reagent's page yet, only in the import review.
  • Tick labels may overlap near an axis break on a graph.
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