Peer-reviewed

Easy genomicsPrivate by design

Test in your browser. Run where your data lives. Open, signed bioinformatics tools, from a quick check on your laptop to a full run next to the data.

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Who it's for

Made for the people who handle the data

  • Clinicians and clinical geneticists

    Check a patient sample without sending it anywhere.

    Quick checks run in your browser. No install, no upload, no account.

    1. patient.fasta
    2. Fasta Extract
    3. result
    RunsIn the browserNext to your data · in development

  • Researchers

    Test a workflow on a sample, then run it on the full dataset.

    Export it as one file so a colleague can repeat exactly the same steps.

    1. reads.fastq
    2. minimap2
    3. samtools sort
    4. samtools stats
    RunsIn the browserNext to your data · in development

  • Teachers and students

    Give a whole class the same tools in minutes.

    Every student runs them in the browser on their own laptop. No accounts, no cluster, no setup.

    1. workflow.json
    2. Import workflow
    3. Run
    RunsIn the browser

Platform pillars

What you get

A signed publishing pipeline, a hybrid runtime, and a workflow editor. All open source.

Recipes → Hub → Registry

Tools are declared as YAML recipes, validated and built by biochef-hub (SBOM, SLSA, cosign), then published as signed bundles to the BioChef Registry.

Browser and agent

Every tool runs in the browser as WebAssembly, for quick tests on small data. The BioChef agent, in development, runs the same signed tools next to your data.

Drag-and-drop DAGs

A DAG editor chains tools end-to-end. Tools are filtered by data type, parameters re-execute live, and workflows can be exported and shared as JSON.

System design

Architecture at a glance

A YAML recipe in Git, signed by the Hub CI, served from the BioChef Registry, and run as WebAssembly in your browser.

System map

How a tool reaches your browser

A YAML recipe is built and signed by biochef-hub, published as a content-addressable bundle in the BioChef Registry, then fetched by digest and executed as WebAssembly inside your browser tab.

See full anatomy →
  1. 01RecipesYAML source
  2. 02HubCI · sign · publish
  3. 03RegistrySigned OCI bundles
  4. 04BrowserWebAssembly runtime

Standards

Ecosystem fit

Built on open standards and designed to integrate with existing infrastructure.

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Runtime

WebAssembly

Bioinformatics tools compiled with Emscripten and biowasm, so tests run right in the browser.

Distribution

OCI Registry

Signed bundles published to registry.biochef.app with SBOM and SLSA provenance.

Provenance

Sigstore cosign

Every recipe is built, tested, signed, and an immutable digest is recorded in the signed index.json.

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Try BioChef in your browser

Pick a tool, paste a sequence, run it. The whole catalogue is one click away.

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