This changelog provides a high-level overview of LatchBio platform updates.

:github: Developer Changelog

For Latch Nextflow, Snakemake, and Python SDK updates, please visit our developer changelog on GitHub here.

:latchbio-logo: Platform Wiki

For comprehensive documentation of the platform, please visit our Latch Wiki.

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🪵 Latch Changelog — August 2025

Coming soon!

🪵 Latch Changelog — July 2025

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Latch is now GDPR compliant, ensuring that all data handling, storage, and processing on the platform meets stringent European data protection and privacy standards. This compliance enables biotech and pharma organizations operating in or serving the EU to confidently use Latch for secure and compliant research workflows.

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• Plots

  • Increased image resolution in the H5 viewer for clearer visualization

  • Combined gene scoring added to H5 viewer, enabling multi-gene expression analysis

  • Aligned images can now be saved directly into AnnData objects in the uns layer for downstream use

  • Read-only plots now support tiled AnnData with precomputed gene values, allowing scientists to explore large datasets without running a dedicated Plot notebook, reducing compute costs

  • Snapshot operations in Plots now include a progress bar for better visibility

  • Introduced new Platform Widgets, such as Plots and LData.

    Platform Widgets - LatchBio

• Registry

  • New API support for searching rows by created_at and updated_at fields

• Pods

  • Internet-restricted Pods now support package installation via pip, conda, Bioconductor, and CRAN
  • Investigated and improved reliability of downloading files from ldata_fast (Note: ldata_fast is an EFS mount that can be set up for your Pods on a per-request basis.)

• Workflows & Development

  • Improved end-to-end testing flow for latch-develop

• Resources:

  • Launched NGS market landscape, featuring more than 60 machine configurations and top 10 providers.

  https://latch.bio/omics-provider-landscape?type=ngs-instruments

🪵 Latch Changelog — June 2025

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• Data Portal: Miraomics, Pythia Biosciences and LatchBio released a 30 million cell atlas and an agentic AI framework for molecular data curation.

  👉Check out our press release here:

  https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250627712510/en/Miraomics-Pythia-Biosciences-and-LatchBio-Release-a-30-Million-Cell-Atlas-and-an-Agentic-AI-Framework-for-Molecular-Data-Curation

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• Pods
  • Multiple apps can now be hosted simultaneously on an individual Pod. Developers can expose multiple “Launch” buttons on a Pod for scientists to click.