Updates and improvements to Solu. Feedback: [email protected]
September 2026
The new Plasmids page in the sidebar lists every plasmid detected across your workspace in one table. Each row shows the host sample's species and MLST, plasmid size, number of contigs, predicted mobility, replicon types, and the AMR genes it carries. You can search and filter the table, for example to find every plasmid carrying blaKPC-2, and open any plasmid on its sample page with a single click.
We've also polished the plasmid maps introduced in July. You can now see the annotation status directly in the sample table, get notified when a plasmid map is ready, and export the circular map as SVG.
You can now decide what each member of your workspace can do:
Admins can invite several people at once, change roles, and remove members from Settings > General. All existing members have been given the Admin role, so nobody lost access. New invitations default to Editor.
You can now upload your own reference genome for any species, including species where Solu doesn't provide a curated reference. Go to Settings > Phylogeny, pick a species, and upload a FASTA or GenBank file. Solu re-aligns all samples of that species against the new reference and rebuilds the phylogenetic tree. Note that clusters are recalculated, so existing cluster statuses and notes for that species won't carry over. Only workspace admins can change the reference.
Need to record something that doesn't fit the standard metadata, like a ward, lab ID, or host age? You can now add your own text, number, or date fields to any sample from the Edit sample drawer. Custom fields are shown in their own card on the sample page.