With spcfyBASE, Labs can streamline every step of their metabarcoding workflow: From order creation to preprocessing, quality control, and data delivery. It ensures standardized, reproducible results while maintaining full data ownership and transparency. Labs gain efficient, error-resistant operations and complete control over their sequencing data and metadata.

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Your Lab, your Data. And Full Control.

Process, analyze, and share your sequencing data with full ownership and independence.

Our spcfy Workflow for Labs.

Profit from an intuitive workflow that lets you create analysis orders directly from FASTQ files using standardized amplicon pipelines and regional CO1 reference databases. This ensures reproducible results, flexible adaptation to different genetic markers, and faster turnaround from sequencing to analysis.

Quick order creation: Create analysis orders directly from Illumina FASTQ files.
Sample-level singletons: Include or retain single-read OTUs across samples to capture rare or localized species.
Custom reference libraries: Request tailored reference datasets for specific taxa, regions, or projects.
Integrated pipelines: Choose among five standardized amplicon pipelines (16S, 12S, CO1, PITS2, ITS2) plus a flexible pipeline for other markers.
Regional CO1 databases: Select Europe, Americas, Asia, Oceania, Africa, or Worldwide.
Five FASTQ entry points: Demultiplexed pairs, multiplexed pairs, merged single, trimmed merged single, or trimmed pairs.

Benefit from a synchronized environment that allows you to receive sequencing requests, access detailed metadata, and prepare preprocessing steps immediately after upload. Dashboards stay aligned, ensuring efficient coordination and transparency across projects.

Review & confirm: Inspect sample lists and required metadata before accepting an incoming order.
Default settings: Use predefined pipelines and FASTQ entry formats to standardize processing.
Notifications: Receive automatic alerts when customers create, update, or finalize an order.
Capacity & scheduling: Set expected lead times and assignees so requests route to the right team.
Template validation: Check completeness of primers, barcodes, and metadata on submission.
Team assignment: Assign orders to specific members for clear ownership.

Gain full control over data processing — from uploading and validating FASTQ files to adding metadata and running instant QC checks. Automated completion updates and comprehensive exports help you deliver well-documented, high-quality datasets.

Sample pools: Organize uploads as PCR-plate–based pools including negative controls per cohort.
Recombined analyses: Import samples from other processed orders to combine datasets.
Upload tracking: Track status and automatic merging when pairs arrive unmerged.
Preprocessing & QC: Launch orders with instant quality checks; reset runs before postprocessing if issues appear.
Sample-sheet templates: Download prefilled templates (primers, barcodes, wet-lab & sampling metadata) and re-upload.
Notifications: Send automated completion notices to customers when processing finishes.
Comprehensive exports: Provide FASTQ, Excel report, OTU.fasta, bioinformatics performance report, and MultiQC.

Stay on top of all active and historical projects with searchable overviews, filters, and progress tracking. Retrieve data quickly and maintain transparency across every stage of your workflow.

Status tracking: Monitor Created, Pending, Preprocessing, Postprocessing, and Done.
Report downloads: Download generated Excel reports whenever needed.
Raw data access: Retrieve the order’s FASTQ file container for archiving or re-analysis.
Search: Locate orders by keyword such as project names or identifiers.
Focused filters: Narrow by status stages, target taxon, or customer.
Flexible views: Combine search and filters to quickly find relevant work.

Join our Network: The spcfy Marketplace

Gain visibility in a global community of metabarcoding labs and customers. Find new customers and establish new partnerships. The spcfy Marketplace allows you to present your lab to a growing network of specialized labs and data users, helping you to expand your market activities in a sustainable manner.

Configuration of lab properties: Set your organization public or private and define defaults for order creation.
Default FASTQ entry: Choose your preferred FASTQ entry point so clients know what to provide.
Configure lab profile: Add website, focus areas, description, logo, contacts, and invite team members. Show regional focus (e.g., arthropods, eDNA, airDNA) in your profile.
Visibility settings: Control whether your lab is listed in the public marketplace and featured on our landing page. Prefer to stay private? You can still deliver results to your own clients via spcfy.

With spcfyINSIGHT, you can turn biodiversity data into visual insights. Instead of static reports, our INSIGHT features offer interactive charts, allow you to track changes over time, and compare sites or projects side by side. spcfy helps you see patterns clearly, collaborate with others, and build reliable knowledge for decisions that matter.

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Visualize & Organize - with spcfyINSIGHT.

Deliver interactive, transparent, and data-rich biodiversity results that go far beyond static reports.

spcfy equips labs with interactive visual tools to present biodiversity results clearly. Move beyond static PDFs and deliver KRONA overviews, drill-down charts, and OTU tables that customers can explore, filter, and reuse.

KRONA charts: Explore cumulative or per-sample taxonomic composition with interactive charts.
Bars, areas & lines: Drill down taxonomic levels with linked stacked bars, areas, and line charts for time series.
Dataset browsing: Inspect OTUs and toggle columns like cluster size, Hit%, Grade%, taxonomy, BIN info, and distribution.
Filtering & grouping: Filter by primer, sampling date, habitat, location, trap type, and more; group by BIN or Process ID; toggle normalized vs. raw views.
Reference database filter: Switch between BLAST sources for comparative views.
Threshold controls: Adjust read thresholds and set Grade %-ID cutoffs.
Preset levels: Predefine the default taxonomic hierarchy level to display.

spcfyINSIGHT helps labs build long-running analytical workspaces that combine multiple orders. Curate consistent pipelines, compare cohorts across time and sites, and collaborate with customers — all while keeping data and methods transparent and reproducible.

Unify multiple orders: Combine related orders into a single analysis space for longitudinal or large-scale studies.
Cross-order insights: Compare results side by side across projects, locations, or time windows.
Collaboration: Share access with team members or customers for joint exploration and review.
Reference updates: Benefit from regularly updated OTU databases for improved taxonomic accuracy.
Access control: Use granular permissions for collaborators and external partners.
Preset views: Save filters and chart presets for consistent reporting across sprints.
Upcoming: Export combined result tables, heatmaps of target species, and advanced KPIs. OTU databases update regularly to keep classifications current without full re-runs.