Image & Gel Analysis

Image & Gel Analysis is a deterministic, client-side computer-vision toolkit for quantifying gels, blots, and microscopy images. The measurements run entirely in your browser and are never uploaded to compute the numbers; only optional AI QC commentary sends the image to our AI provider. The engine is covered by its own unit-test suite. It is available on every plan.

Lane Densitometry

For gels and Western blots, define lanes over your image and Olto computes the integrated optical density (IOD) per lane, along with peak and area metrics. This gives you reproducible, quantitative band intensities for comparing expression across conditions.

Cell Counting

For microscopy images, the cell counter segments objects using Otsu thresholding followed by a distance-transform watershed to separate touching cells, then reports counts and per-object statistics. Because the pipeline is deterministic, the same image always yields the same count.

AI Vision for QC Only

You can optionally ask Olto AI to review an analysis and provide qualitative QC commentary, flagging uneven loading, saturation, focus problems, or lane-detection issues. The AI never produces or alters the numbers; densitometry and counts are always computed by the deterministic engine. AI QC commentary is a metered AI call.

Exporting Results

Export your measurements to CSV for downstream statistics, or send them directly into your Research Notebook as a result entry tied to the analysis.