Bioinformatics usually means a Linux terminal, cryptic tools, and a server you don't have. Bio-Scry puts the whole pipeline — reads to a finished, annotated, analysed genome — in your pocket. No command line. No setup. No cost. Just tap and learn.
Start with the E. coli sample that ships in the app — no data of your own required — and walk the same pipeline a professional does. Each step teaches a real concept, and the guide tells you how to read what comes back.
Turn raw reads into contigs and watch a circular chromosome come together. You learn what coverage, contigs and N50 actually mean.
Read the trust score, then find the genes. You learn how completeness, contamination and gene-finding work.
Browse the genome track by track and identify the species from its 16S and ANI. You learn what those numbers say.
Type the isolate, then line genomes up side by side. You learn MLST, resistance screening and phylogenetics by seeing them run.
Bio-Scry runs the same established methods and reference databases the pros use — so what you learn here is transferable. By the time you've worked through a few genomes, you'll be comfortable with:
Coverage, contigs, N50/L50, circular vs fragmented, and what a trustworthy assembly looks like.
Genes, CDS, rRNA/tRNA, regulatory elements — and how a genome is organised.
16S, ANI thresholds, MLST sequence types — the logic behind "what is this?"
How a genotype is read from sequence — and why it isn't the same as a lab phenotype.
Synteny, pangenomes and phylogenetic trees — how genomes relate to each other.
Alignment, primers, cloning, CRISPR guides, restriction maps — the everyday bench skills.
No terminal, no installs, no server, no cloud account, no fee. If you have an iPhone, you have a bioinformatics lab.
Most courses show one step at a time. Here the whole journey — reads to a finished, analysed genome — is in one place, so it finally connects.
Experiment freely on the bundled sample or public data. Nothing you do leaves the device, and there's nothing to break.
Every student runs the same real pipeline on the phone in their pocket — no shared cluster to provision, no accounts to manage, and no student data leaving their device. The bundled sample gives everyone an identical, reproducible starting point.