Tools
Interactive tools for microbial ecology, forensic entomology, and related research. All tools run entirely in-browser, no server or data collection required.
Postmortem interval (PMI) estimation from dipteran larval evidence. Supports 13 forensically relevant species, 7 calculation methods, Monte Carlo simulation, and multi-specimen analysis.
Last updated March 2026 →Interactive color palette explorer for data visualization. Preview 40 sequential, diverging, and categorical palettes across heatmaps, bar charts, line charts, and volcano plots — with one-click code export for Python, R, and JavaScript.
Last updated March 2026 →Generate ASCII folder structure diagrams from indented text. Five style presets (Classic, Rounded, ASCII-only, Compact, Minimal), optional trailing slashes and file-type emoji icons, live preview, and copy / download as .txt. Includes example structures for web, Python, R, and QIIME2 projects.
Last updated March 2026 →Unpack and inspect .qzv and .qza artifacts in-browser. Browse artifact metadata, UUID, provenance (plugin, action, parameters, input artifacts), and all constituent files — with previews for tables, JSON, images, and text files, and individual file downloads.
Last updated March 2026 →Screen sample metadata files for structural issues, type mismatches, and formatting errors before running QIIME2 analyses. Detects missing values, validates column types against #q2:types declarations, and reports compatibility with diversity, longitudinal, composition, and classification workflows.
Summarize and visualize QIIME2 taxonomy classifications from .qza artifacts or taxonomy TSV files. Shows classification completeness by rank, top taxa bar charts, confidence score distributions, and a searchable full feature table. Supports Greengenes and SILVA formats.
Last updated March 2026 →Visualize sample read depth distributions, explore how many samples are retained at any rarefaction depth, and get data-driven depth suggestions. Accepts QIIME2 table-summary .qzv artifacts, exported feature tables (.tsv, BIOM JSON), and simple per-sample depth files. Computes rarefaction curves when a full feature table is provided.
Last updated March 2026 →Region-by-region TBS scoring aid (Megyesi et al. 2005) with ADD calculation and PMI estimation. Score head/neck, trunk, and limbs against verbatim criteria, enter temperature data to compute accumulated degree-days, and get a copy-ready metadata snippet formatted for necrobiome research.
Last updated April 2026 →Interactive explorer for 277 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) from human decomposition research. Browse taxonomy, abundance profiles, and metabolic potential across 569 samples from three research facilities.
Last updated March 2026 →