Save App Results Back to Your Vault

Save what an app produces to your Drylab Vault, not just your laptop, so your next chat can use it, with a qPCR ΔΔCt calculator as the example.

A result that only lands in your Downloads folder is stuck on one laptop: your next analysis in Drylab can't see it. Drylab apps give you two choices for each result, Download to device and Save to Drylab vault, so you can keep it where you'll work with it next.

Why you'd use it

Your next chat can use it. A saved table can be mentioned in any chat, for example to compare this week's qPCR with last month's.
Results stay in Drylab. Saved files are in your Vault, not scattered across Downloads folders.
Want it in a project? One sentence in a chat copies a saved result into that project's Project Files, so every chat in the project can use it.
Everyone keeps their own. When colleagues use your app, their results go to their own Vault, not yours.

Example: a qPCR ΔΔCt calculator

Each week, lab members export Cq values from the qPCR machine. The lab's calculator app computes fold changes the same way for everyone, and each person saves qpcr_ddct.csv to their own Vault. A month later they ask in a chat: "Plot IL6 fold change across my last four qpcr_ddct.csv files".

Prompt to build the app

Build a qPCR ΔΔCt calculator my whole lab can use. Each person uploads their instrument export (CSV or XLSX with the columns Well, Sample, Target and Cq) or picks it from their vault. Let them choose the reference gene and the control sample from dropdowns, average technical replicates, and flag replicates whose Cq differs by more than 0.5. Add an optional biological replicate column and show fold change (2^-ΔΔCt, assuming about 100% primer efficiency) as mean ± SD across biological replicates. Accept common header names such as Target Name and CT. Let them download or save the table as qpcr_ddct.csv and the chart as foldchange.png, plus a settings file with the reference gene and control. Add a Load example button.

Pool sequencing libraries:

Build a library pooling calculator. The user uploads or picks a sheet with sample name, concentration in ng/µl and fragment size in bp. Convert each library to nM (660 g/mol per bp), compute the volume of each for an equimolar pool of 4 nM in 20 µl, topped up with buffer, and flag libraries too dilute to reach it or needing less than 1 µl. Let them save pooling_sheet.csv.

Design a 96-well plate map:

Build a plate map designer for 96-well plates. The user uploads or picks a sample list, assigns samples, standards and blanks to wells by clicking, and sees the layout as a colored plate. Let them save plate_layout.csv and a printable plate_layout.png.

Where saved files go

Who is using the app	Click	Where the file goes
You, in your own app	Save to Drylab vault	Into your Vault without a dialog; the app shows where it saved the file.
Someone you shared it with	Save to Drylab vault	Drylab asks "Save to your Drylab vault": they open a folder, check the file name and click Save here. It goes to their own Vault.
Anyone	Download to device	Your computer's Downloads folder. Drylab can't see it there.

To reuse a saved result in every chat of a project, ask in a chat to copy it into that project's Project Files. See Save Results to the Same Workspace.

Steps for anyone using the app

Run the app on your data, for example upload this week's export and pick the reference gene and control.
Check the result, here the flagged replicates and the fold changes.
Click Save to Drylab vault. In a shared app, open the folder you want, check the file name and click Save here.
In a chat, mention the saved file to keep working with it.

Tips

Name the outputs in your prompt (qpcr_ddct.csv, foldchange.png), so every saved file is easy to find later.
Save the method with the results. A small settings file (reference gene, control, cutoff, app version) lets anyone redo the numbers.
For people you share with: pick one folder per experiment when saving, so results sit next to the data they came from.