We’ve just wrapped up our first ever collaboration project at Amytis — and it’s been a brilliant one to kick off with.

Over six weeks, we worked closely with Dr RuAngelie Edrada-Ebel and her team at the University of Strathclyde, including undergraduate student Arasi and PhD student Riggs, to explore how Amytis could support their research into new bioactive compounds from lichen-derived fungi. These compounds are being studied for their potential to combat harmful bacterial biofilms — a serious challenge in healthcare due to their resistance to antibiotics.

It’s exactly the kind of complex, data-rich research we built Amytis to support. And this collaboration gave us the perfect opportunity to test and co-develop new tools that could enhance and streamline their workflow — and eventually, benefit a much wider research community too.

Together, we’ve been able to design and test several exciting new features — all coming soon to the Amytis workspace:

• Automated multivariate analysis tools for PCA, PLSDA, and OPLSDA — directly within the workspace, and no coding required.

• An NMR spectrum viewer that lets you explore structural data interactively inside your project graph.

• An AI knowledge graph generator, which lets you build concept maps from a simple text prompt — perfect for kickstarting new areas of work.

• And a series of UI improvements that make using the platform smoother, more intuitive, and more enjoyable to use.

These tools were developed specifically to support the types of analytical workflows used in RuAngelie’s lab, but they’re designed to be flexible and widely applicable. Whether you’re working in metabolomics, synthetic biology, natural products, or any field dealing with large datasets and layered insights, these features can help you explore, analyse, and understand your research more effectively — all within one integrated workspace.

This project also led to the creation of a new standard operating procedure (SOP) for metabolomics data processing using Amytis. It’s a great practical example of how Amytis can be embedded in real lab workflows, and we’re excited to keep building on this with more labs and teams in the future.

"Collaborating with Amytis this summer on a small pain undergraduate project for data management and organisation was excellent. Eva and Freddie were very accommodating in responding to our questions in the process of using the software tailored to the objectives of our project and mapping the historical activities of each respective project. The workspace is user friendly, but the most important point is the relatively easy way to communicate with the developers for further modifications like insertion of simplified commands for sorting large datasets.  My group will continue to collaborate with them as we want the software to be part of our data organisation SOP in managing continuity of multiple projects between contracts, which will be more sustainable."

~ Dr RuAngelie Edrada-Ebel - Senior Lecturer & Head of the The Natural Metabolomics Group, University of Strathclyde

"The applications of Amytis workspace are endless. As a PhD student, I find it as an excellent organisation tool to map big projects down to tracking it to specific methodology and subsequent results. It is like your digital lab notebook! I especially appreciate how it supports FAIR principles (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability), which are crucial for modern scientific research. Huge credit to Eva and Freddie for developing  Amytis. I’m excited to see how the platform evolves, especially with the upcoming discipline-specific tools they’re working on to broaden its impact even further."

~ Roberth Riggs Rondilla - PhD Student, Edrada-Ebel Lab, University of Strathclyde

We’re hugely grateful to RuAngelie and her team for being our first ever collaborators. Their insight, openness, and feedback have helped us build better tools — and their generosity in sharing their data and time has made a lasting impact on what Amytis can offer.

The features we’ve developed through this project are just the beginning — and we can’t wait to make them available soon. If you’re curious about where we’re headed, or want to be one of the first to try them out when they land, head over to www.amytis.io or join our growing community on Patreon.

Big thanks again to RuAngelie, Arasi, Riggs, and everyone at the Natural Products Metabolomics Group at Strathclyde — we couldn’t have asked for a better first project.