Most experiments are carefully planned. Then the context starts slipping: conditions in one spreadsheet, plate layouts in another, the person who ran the analysis using shorthand nobody else can decode. Six months later, you're staring at the final graph with no clear way to reconstruct what happened or why.

This isn't a failure of scientific rigour. It's a structural problem. Experimental design and experimental results live in different places, and the connection between them gets lost.

Experiments is a new section in Reshape built to keep that connection intact. Define your parameters once ( organisms, treatments, media, and samples), and they travel with every plate, every image, and every result. The experiment becomes the address. Everything that belongs to it lives there.

What's new

• Create an experiment with a name, hypothesis, analysis type, and tags — before a single plate is touched

• Define parameters upfront: organisms, treatments, media, samples, temperatures, and replicates, each linked to every well and result downstream

• Design plates from your experiment parameters, using one-off layouts or saved templates with well assignments already in place

• Review quality automatically: anomalies and replicate variance get flagged in the background; exclude any wells before drawing conclusions

• Explore insights filtered and grouped by the conditions you defined. Compare performance across organisms, treatments, and media without manual merging

• Write up findings in Reports, linked directly to the experiment and jobs that produced them, and export as PDF when you're ready to share

We'll keep building Experiments carefully, guided by how teams actually run experiments in real lab environments.

Enjoy!