eDNA Triage

eDNA Triage is a web app (with a lightweight mobile companion) that helps conservation teams quickly assess whether new environmental DNA results are trustworthy enough to act on. Instead of trying to be a full bioinformatics pipeline, it focuses on the painful middle step: interpreting outputs from common labs/providers and flagging likely contamination, primer bias, low read depth, missing controls, and taxonomic assignment uncertainty. Users upload standard result files (CSV/TSV) plus a simple metadata template (site, date, controls). The app generates a “decision-ready” report: confidence scores per taxon, recommended follow-up sampling, and a plain-language summary for managers and funders. An AI assistant can draft the narrative and highlight anomalies, but the core logic remains rule-based and transparent. It also keeps an auditable trail for compliance and repeatability across projects.