Solutions

Every tool, grouped by what it does.

Quill is one product with a deep toolset: a flagship design pipeline wrapped in focused molecular-biology engines. They all share one API, one workspace, and one mandatory biosecurity gate.

Express
POST /api/design

The flagship sentence-to-synthesis pipeline. Plain English in; an optimized CDS, an annotated GenBank plasmid, a bench sheet and a PDF lab report out, each carrying a GO / CONDITIONAL / NO-GO verdict. 11 steps: parse → real gene fetch → codon optimization → regulatory design → assembly → structure → 4-layer validation → biosecurity → verdict → auto-remediation → deterministic export.

GOCONDITIONALNO-GO
Generative Design
POST /api/generate

Constrained combinatorial generation over real, controllable parameters: regulatory context, codon target, guide choice. Every candidate is scored by the predictors and run through the validators and biosecurity gate before it is ever proposed. A blocked candidate is dropped, not ranked.

scoredgatedranked
Goal Orchestrator
POST /api/goal

One free-text instruction, decomposed into an ordered tool plan and chained end to end, e.g. express this, then predict its yield. The deterministic intent router classifies modality, method and delivery first, so the plan is auditable.

free-text → planchained run
Grounded Explain
GET /api/explain

A plain-English explanation of any design where every claim is backed by an engine output or a citation. The LLM is hard-constrained to restate only the facts it was given, so it cannot introduce an ungrounded number.

provenance DAGno hallucination
CRISPR Editing
POST /api/edit · /api/guides

Knockout / knock-in across Cas9 (NGG), Cas12a (TTTV), λ-Red, integrase, base & prime editing. Host-universal delivery, a CFD-style genome off-target screen, an HDR donor with re-cut prevention, and verification primers.

guide designoff-targetHDR donor
Site-directed Mutagenesis
POST /api/mutagenesis

HGVS-lite edits like S65T, F64L, K27del: frame-preserving, with primer design and a re-check of the resulting construct. The exact deterministic move a bench scientist would make, automated.

HGVS-liteframe-safe
Cloning Designer
POST /api/cloning · /api/clone/advanced

Gibson, Golden Gate, MoClo and BioBrick RFC[10], plus a modern suite: In-Fusion, Gateway BP/LR, TOPO, restriction-ligation. Both-strand domestication scan so no method-breaking site slips through.

GibsonGolden GateMoClo
Fusion & Tags
POST /api/fusion

N/C-terminal tags, linkers, NLS/NES localization signals, secretion leaders and protease sites, composed and validated as one construct, with the junctions checked.

linkerslocalizationsecretion
Library Designer
POST /api/library

NNK/NNS site-saturation and combinatorial promoter × RBS libraries, with the diversity math worked out: theoretical size, codon coverage and the screening burden you're signing up for.

NNK / NNSdiversity math
Multi-gene & Circuits
POST /api/design (multigene)

Operons, pathways and toggle-switch circuits: multiple coding sequences with their own regulatory parts, assembled and balanced into a single plannable construct.

operonspathwayscircuits
DNA Linter
POST /api/lint

Live, continuous QA: frameshift, premature stop, cryptic ORF, illegal restriction site, low-complexity/repeats, splice site, polyA signal, all returned as structured findings with severity, so a UI can underline problems as you type, exactly like a code linter.

severity-rankedlive
Alignment & Sanger
POST /api/align · /api/align/sanger

Needleman–Wunsch (global) and Smith–Waterman (local) alignment, plus Sanger trace reading: confirm an edit landed and read the chromatogram without leaving the workspace.

global · localtrace
Primer QA
POST /api/primer/qa

Tm, hairpin, self- and cross-dimer, and specificity for any primer set, flagged before you order, not after a failed reaction.

Tmhairpin / dimer
Structure (3D)
POST /api/design (structure)

A fast offline foldability heuristic runs in-loop on every Express design; a deep AlphaFold / ESMFold prediction with per-residue pLDDT confidence bands is available on demand.

foldabilityAlphaFold / ESMFold
Sequence Analysis & Map
POST /api/analyze · /api/map

ORF and feature analysis plus render-ready map tracks for a SnapGene-style plasmid view (GC ring, bp ruler, directional feature arrows, single-cutter enzyme ticks), drawn client-side with no libraries.

ORFs · featuresmap tracks
Compare & Diff
POST /api/diff

A precise design diff between two constructs or two versions (what changed, where, and why), feeding the version-control timeline and the side-by-side comparison report.

construct diffper-base
Off-target
POST /api/predict/offtarget

A CFD-style specificity prediction for a guide against the host genome: value plus confidence interval, with the evidence sites it scored.

value ± CICFD-style
On-target
POST /api/predict/ontarget

Cutting efficiency for a chosen guide, scored with the same uncertainty contract, so you rank guides on evidence, not vibes.

efficiencyranked
Yield
POST /api/predict/yield · /api/yield

Reference-model soluble yield in mg/L with a transparent factor breakdown (codon adaptation, GC, host, regulatory strength), so you see why, not just a number.

mg/Lfactor breakdown
Biosecurity Screen
POST /api/biosecurity/screen

A first-class, non-bypassable gate on every design and every generated candidate. Prefers the production-grade commec screen (IBBIS, via WSL2) and falls back to a clearly-labelled synthetic screen. The gate is never silently skipped, and a blocked candidate is dropped, not ranked. Biosecurity blocks are never auto-remediated.

PASSEDWARNINGBLOCKED
Optimize
POST /api/optimize

Multi-objective ranking with a true Pareto front: surface the non-dominated trade-offs (yield vs. specificity vs. cost) instead of collapsing them into one fragile score.

Pareto frontweighted rank
DBTL Campaigns
POST /api/campaigns*

A file-backed campaign agent that proposes a budgeted batch, waits for a human approval gate, records your bench results, reconciles and recalibrates, then recommends the next round. It never orders anything itself.

human-in-loopbudgetedauditable
Results & Calibration
POST /api/results · /api/calibration

An in-house bench-results store with CSV/JSON ingest, a predicted-vs-observed reconciliation, and a closed-form least-squares calibration tracker (with R²), so the predictors get sharper as your data grows.

predicted vs observedleast-squares
Active Learning
part of /api/campaigns

UCB / EI / uncertainty acquisition with a diversity penalty. It picks the batch that teaches you the most per dollar, not just the highest-mean candidates.

UCB / EIinfo-per-dollar
Version Control
POST /api/vcs*

Git-like repos for constructs: branch, commit, log, diff, blame, with per-base attribution. Treat a plasmid like a codebase, with a real history you can audit.

branch · commitdiff · blame
Projects
GET/POST /api/projects*

The container that holds runs, repos, campaigns, sessions, data and files together, with an activity log and inline named sequences. A tabbed workspace: Overview · Repos · Campaigns · Chats · Data · Files · History.

accumulating workactivity log
Assistant
POST /api/assist

A deterministic NL edit-and-re-check: "swap the promoter for EF1α and re-optimize" applies the edit, then re-runs the linter, analysis, foldability and yield automatically.

NL editauto re-check
ELN Export
POST /api/eln/export

One-way, opt-in export to your ELN. Quill's GenBank output opens directly in the sequence tools you already use: design-intelligence in, system-of-record out. It never ingests from or depends on an ELN.

one-wayopt-inno lock-in

One API · one workspace · one gate

From a sentence to synthesis, in about three minutes.

Every tool here is exposed through one REST API and the Quill Studio web app. The deterministic tools run with no API key and no network.