SoilFlux
For microscopy consultants and labs

Your slide.
Your call.

A guided workspace for soil-microscopy assessment. You keep the judgement, and the report you give a client stands up to questions.

Class review · illustrative
5 / 6 decided
  • Bacteria

    reviewed · 12 FOV

    Present
  • Fungi

    reviewed · 12 FOV

    Present
  • Protozoa: flagellates

    reviewed · 12 FOV

    Present
  • Protozoa: ciliates

    reviewed · 12 FOV

    Absent
  • Nematodes

    sample degraded

    Not assessable
  • Oomycetes

    4 of 12 FOV

    Undecided
Report blocked: one class still undecided.Generate report

Illustrative class review: each organism class is worked through to a decision, and the report stays blocked until all are decided.

The workflow

Five steps, one screen at a time.

  1. 01

    Sample

    Register the sample and its context once. No spreadsheet running alongside.

  2. 02

    Upload

    Fields of view, in the order you shot them.

  3. 03

    Annotate

    One organism class at a time, each recorded as present, absent, or not assessable with a reason.

  4. 04

    Counts

    Bacterial and nematode counts recorded against the same session.

  5. 05

    Report

    A client-ready report, generated once the assessment is complete.

The subjects

Beneficials and pathogens alike.

The organism classes an assessment works through, one at a time. Real microscopy from open datasets, with the original attribution preserved beside each plate.

Trichoderma harzianum, Beneficial inoculant · biocontrol agentSample 78

Trichoderma harzianum

Beneficial inoculant · biocontrol agent

Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.7965200 · CC-BY 4.0

Fusarium spp., Soilborne pathogen · biocontrol targetSample 04

Fusarium spp.

Soilborne pathogen · biocontrol target

Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.7965200 · CC-BY 4.0

Verticillium dahliae, Soilborne pathogen · strawberry / cottonSample 106

Verticillium dahliae

Soilborne pathogen · strawberry / cotton

Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.7965200 · CC-BY 4.0

Phytophthora spp., Oomycete pathogen · potato / forestrySample 64

Phytophthora spp.

Oomycete pathogen · potato / forestry

Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.7965200 · CC-BY 4.0

Why the report holds

A report that is complete and current.

Complete, or it does not leave

A report will not generate while any required organism class on any included field of view is still undecided. Half-reviewed slides do not become client documents.

Current, provably

A report is released only when a fresh check confirms it reflects your latest edit. If you change a count after generating a report, the old version can no longer be downloaded.

Yours alone

Two tabs or two devices cannot overwrite each other's decisions. The work you signed off is the work that ships.

The division of labour

The software does the bookkeeping. You do the biology.

Assisted detection makes proposals and you decide. You accept, correct or reject each one, and your correction is the record.

The assist supports your judgement and does not replace it. The workflow guarantees that your work is never lost, that an incomplete assessment is never released, and that a client never receives an outdated report.

Your role

What stays with you.

Your name on the report

The assessment is yours, and the report states clearly who made the call.

Measures we stand behind

The report includes only the measures we can support with confidence.

Your microscope, your method

SoilFlux is the workspace around your microscope: capture, decide, record and report, so your expertise reaches the client in a form they can act on.

Put a real slide through it.

Early access is open to practising consultants and labs. The best first session uses a sample you have already assessed, so you can compare the record with your own judgement.