Don’t wait for the lab to call back.
Seconds, not days
A calibrated first read the moment you see the smear — while culture and sequencing are still running.
A steadier call
Trained on sequencing-confirmed strains, it’s a second pair of eyes that trims the doubt and the reader-to-reader drift.
Wherever the smear is
Phone to eyepiece. No bench, no login. Night shift, remote clinic, or the teaching scope — it travels with you.
It won’t replace the workup — it gives you a head start on it: the confidence to move hours before the definitive answer lands.
What sequencing knows, vision reads.
Species identity is fixed by molecular methods — Oxford Nanopore NGS of the 16S rRNA gene and the rrn operon. The gold standard, and the high-reliability ground truth every training label is built on. Definitive — but hours to days out.
A self-supervised vision foundation model with a lightweight head, trained across 70+ reference species. It reads one stained field — or pools a few for stability — and predicts the identity sequencing would confirm. On device, in seconds.
We don’t sequence on a phone. The model learns the link instead: every training image is a strain whose identity is confirmed by Oxford Nanopore NGS, so DINOv2 learns to map a Gram-stain field to the answer the lab will reach — a calibrated first read at the very first step, while the definitive workup runs.
Capture
Photograph one field through the eyepiece — phone to ocular, or a slide scan.
Analyze
A DINOv2 vision model reads morphology, arrangement, and stain in real time.
Identify
Species, Gram class, and a calibrated confidence — surfaced on the spot.
The lab’s eye, in your pocket.
Free tier · 20 analyses / month · no account required