Gap analysis

Turn papers and lab records into questions worth testing

Read the literature and your lab’s record side by side, and find the questions worth your next experiment.

Gap analysisTopic: signal drift in western blots
Literature

Two 2025 papers report the same drift with one detergent lot.

12

Your record

Variable controls in runs 12 and 14, with the cause unresolved.

34

Gap: no run in the record tests the detergent lot.

Literature

A 2024 paper compares blocking agents across membrane types.

5

Your record

Not found in the covered record.

Where your records have nothing, it says so.

What it does

Compare the literature with your own lab data

  • Side by side

    See what published work reports next to what your lab has recorded: results, conditions tried, failures and contradictions.

  • Careful about what is missing

    When your records have nothing on a point, it tells you, so you can see where your lab’s evidence runs out.

  • A start for the next experiment

    Each gap shows the relevant sources and where the record is silent, so the next conversation starts from facts.

Built to be trusted

What you can rely on

  • Every gap shows its sources on both sides, or says which side is missing.
  • Contradictions in your records stay visible.
  • The search terms are yours to edit and approve.

What it won’t do

  • Assume your lab never tried something just because it found nothing.
  • Send anything to PubMed without your approval.
How it works

From start to finish in three steps

  1. 1

    Set the topic

    Name the question or method you want to test against the literature.

  2. 2

    Approve the search

    Check the search terms filled in from your topic, edit them and approve them.

  3. 3

    Review the gaps

    Each gap shows the relevant sources and where the record is silent.

Bring one real question from your lab

See it work in a private demo on example records, with nothing to upload and no commitment.

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