Welcome to the Solu Platform, the simplest way to analyze bacterial and fungal WGS samples. This guide describes our methodology, helping you to accurately cite and publish your results.
Using the platform is as simple as it gets. Just drag-and-drop your FASTQ or FASTA files in and click “Start upload”. That’s it! The analyses start automatically and finish in 2 to 10 minutes.
Solu also offers a sequencing service, where we take care of both sequencing and analysis.
When publishing results analyzed by Solu, mention the Solu Platform and cite the specific tools your results depend on. Copy the citation from below:
Saratto, T., Visuri, K., Lehtinen, J. et al. Solu: a cloud platform for real-time genomic pathogen surveillance. BMC Bioinformatics 26, 12 (2025). <https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-024-06005-z>
The platform supports the following filetypes and formats:
Paired-end short (Illumina) reads (.fastq, .fq, .gz)
Please add a read suffix to the file name for short-read files (e.g. {name}_R1.fastq) for the automatic forward and reverse read recognition to work:
SampleName_1.fastq.gz
SampleName_2.fastq.gz
If using multiple lanes for the same sample, please follow the Illumina filename format (examples below):
SampleName_S1_L001_R1_001.fastq.gz
SampleName_S1_L001_R2_001.fastq.gz
SampleName_S1_L002_R1_001.fastq.gz
SampleName_S1_L002_R2_001.fastq.gz
SampleName_S1_L003_R1_001.fastq.gz
SampleName_S1_L003_R2_001.fastq.gz
SampleName_S1_L004_R1_001.fastq.gz
SampleName_S1_L004_R2_001.fastq.gz
SampleName_S1_L001_1.fastq.gz
SampleName_S1_L001_2.fastq.gz
SampleName_S1_L002_1.fastq.gz
SampleName_S1_L002_2.fastq.gz
SampleName_S1_L003_1.fastq.gz
SampleName_S1_L003_2.fastq.gz
SampleName_S1_L004_1.fastq.gz
SampleName_S1_L004_2.fastq.gz
Basecalled Oxford Nanopore reads (.fastq, .fq, .gz)