Why I built
AutoBlot Studio

At peak, I was running 8 to 12 western blots a day, four days a week. The experiments themselves were fine — it was everything that came after that was the problem.

Every blot needed to be opened, cropped, adjusted, quantified, normalised, and dropped into a figure. Manually. For each one. By the time the lab day was done, the analysis hadn't even started. Evenings and weekends became data-processing sessions instead of time to think, rest, or run the next experiment.

"When deadlines were tight, the backlog of unanalysed data meant I couldn't move forward with new experiments. The bottleneck wasn't the science — it was the admin."

I looked for a better tool. There were options, but they were either designed in the 90s, required expensive licences and IT installation, or asked you to learn a new piece of software just to draw a box around a band. None of them felt like they were built for how a modern lab actually works.

So I built AutoBlot Studio. It runs entirely in your browser — no installation, no IT request, nothing to configure. Upload your blot, and the bands are detected automatically. Normalisation, figures, and statistics are handled in the same place. What used to take an evening now takes minutes.

Western blot analysis was the starting point, but the vision is bigger. Research labs deal with a tangle of disconnected tools — one for analysis, another for statistics, a spreadsheet for notes, a separate app for figures. AutoBlot Studio is being built to replace all of that.

Alongside the core blot analyser, the platform now includes a Statistics Suite for analysing and visualising results across experiments, a Lab Book for keeping structured notes and running built-in calculators for common wet lab tasks, and an Integrity Checker that automatically flags signs of image manipulation — helping labs maintain the standard of data transparency that modern science demands.

Running through all of it is Blotty, the built-in AI copilot. The biggest barrier to any new tool isn't the features — it's the learning curve. Blotty removes that entirely. You don't need to know which statistical test to run, how to set up a normalisation, or where to find a particular export option. You just ask, in plain English, and Blotty handles it. It reads your actual data, understands which tool you're in, and acts on it directly — no switching tabs, no copy-pasting results between apps. For a researcher running experiments under time pressure, that means fewer hours figuring out software and more time doing science.

It's built by a researcher who lived the problem, for researchers who are living it now.

AutoBlot Studio is an independent project developed entirely in my own time, using my own resources. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or the intellectual property of any university or research institution.