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Viewing and analyzing your results

How to understand analytics with Reshape

Updated over 2 weeks ago

After your job has completed, Discovery brings all your images and the analyzed data together in one place. Here, you will learn how to view and explore these.

While and after a job has been completed, Discovery brings all images and analyzed data together.

You can quickly explore every frame of a timelapse, review all the data the AI has detected, and get an overview of key time points without having to sort through raw data manually.

🎥 Find it easier to watch? Check out our Reshape 101 video below – or continue reading for a quick written walkthrough.

Job Overview

When you open a finished job, you’ll land in the Job Overview.

This panel shows all essential information, including the project name, analysis type, robot ID, plate type, and recorded temperature during the run.

You’ll also see an audit trail that tracks every change, which can be helpful for verifying experiment history and maintaining accountability.

Media Player

The Media Player lets you replay or scrub through the timelapse of your job.

Use the playback controls to start, pause, or skip to a specific frame, and adjust the image brightness to highlight subtle details.

If you notice something interesting – like an early colony formation or a color change – simply pause the video and inspect the plate or well more closely.

If multiple light modes were applied to the job, switch between bottom, top, or fluorescence lighting to reveal details in transparency, surface texture, or tagged fluorescent signals. Each lighting preset provides complementary visual data for a more complete picture of your results.

Analysis side panel

Click any plate to open the Analysis view in the side panel.

You’ll see the plate image along with statistical summaries such as colony count, growth rate, and time of appearance – depending on the analysis model you’re using.

Below that, graphs plot growth over time, giving you both numerical and visual trends in one place. These insights make it easy to spot and investigate key moments of interest.

Finally, toggle annotations on for an instant visual overlay of detected objects. This is where Discovery’s automated analysis comes to life — each outlined shape represents a detected colony or object. Annotations make it easy to verify what’s being counted and how the analysis algorithms interpret detections. If applicable, you can also filter by organism type, color, size, and more.


Once you’re comfortable exploring your job results and analyzing data in Discovery, you’re ready to take the next step — exporting your images and data for sharing or further analysis.

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