What is GNPS?
The Global Natural Product Social Molecular Networking platform (now GNPS2) is a public repository and data analysis platform used by thousands of academic researchers to identify and discover new small molecules. GNPS/GNPS2 has been used in >3,500 peer-reviewed publications spanning natural products, agriculture, human health, the environment, and more.
GNPS/GNPS2 is free for academics, but is not available for commercial use.
What is Ometa Labs?
Ometa Labs brings GNPS workflows to commercial settings, providing enhanced security, compute, and support as well as custom development tailored to industry needs.
What is the difference between GNPS and Ometa Labs?
GNPS/GNPS2 offers over 50 platform-independent tools for analyzing mass spectrometry data, including library matching, molecular networking, MS/MS searching, and more. However, GNPS/GNPS2 are only available to academic researchers. They are not available to businesses or other commercial entities.
Ometa Labs offers GNPS2 workflows to businesses. Because business and academic needs differ, Ometa is tailored to industry needs: providing enhanced security, dedicated compute, and best-in-class support. We also develop custom tools for our clients, accelerating research with analysis solutions that fit their goals.
The mission of both platforms is the same: to empower the community with advanced tools for mass spectrometry data analysis. Whether you’re in academia or industry, there’s a solution built for your needs.
| Ometa Labs | GNPS2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Cutting-Edge Analysis Tools | ✔ | ✔ |
| Server | Secure, private server | Shared GNPS2 server |
| Processing | Unlimited, scales to your needs | Shared processing on GNPS2 server |
| Initial Training | One-on-one live training | Online workshops |
| Expert Support | Weekly office hours, monthly consultations, direct access to development team | Weekly office hours, online resources |
| Custom Development | ✔ | ✕ |
| Available to Businesses | ✔ | ✕ |
| Annual Pricing | As low as $10K | Free |
What can you do with Ometa Labs and GNPS?
GNPS and Ometa Labs provide cutting-edge tools for identifying and discovering small molecules. Check out the videos below to see the platform in action!
FAQs
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If you’re an academic or non-profit researcher, you should use GNPS/GNPS2. If you’re a business, you should use Ometa Flow.
Note: if you’re in academia but have specialized data privacy, security, computer processing, or development needs, feel free to reach out to the Ometa Labs team. Ometa Labs is happy to work with academics to create specialized tools and services.
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No. GNPS/GNPS2 are not (and have never been) available to commercial entities. If you are a business interested in using GNPS or GNPS2, please contact us.
Still thinking about it? We get it, free is great, but using GNPS/GNPS2 as a business isn’t just a violation of licensing agreements, it can create serious legal and intellectual property issues in the future. GNPS/GNPS2 cannot guarantee the privacy of commercial data uploaded to its server and will not grant access to any known commercial users. To use GNPS2 workflows on a secure, private server that protects your intellectual property, please contact the Ometa Labs team. We’ll help you find a licensing option that fits your budget.
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Businesses have different requirements than most academic labs. Ometa’s licensing fees go towards creating a software tailored to industry research. This includes:
Creating a secure, private server that protects data privacy and intellectual property
Providing best-in-class support, including same-day troubleshooting and regular consultation
Building optimized analysis workflows that scale to your data
Customizing and automating pipelines to accelerate analysis
In addition, a portion of all licensing costs goes directly back to the researchers behind GNPS/GNPS2 to ensure they can continue to maintain and develop best-in-class analysis tools that are free and open to the academic community.
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Close, but not quite. While the vast majority of the workflows are shared between GNPS/GNPS2 and Ometa Flow, you may see some minor differences in features or web design. Many of these differences stem from the differing needs of academic and industry researchers, but if you have questions about availability of your favorite workflows or features, please contact us.
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Ometa Flow provides the cutting-edge analysis tools in GNPS/GNPS2 plus:
A secure, private server
Rest easy knowing that your data and results are secure.
Dedicated compute
Tired of waiting days or weeks for an analysis to finish? Ometa Labs scales computational resources to your analysis needs and even offers high-performance computing capabilities.
Best-in-class support
We are dedicated to providing expert, timely support from real human beings. This includes weekly drop-in office hours, monthly consultation meetings, and direct access to our development team for questions or troubleshooting. We regularly update and optimize our platform based on client feedback, and respond to email requests within 24 hours.
Custom development
Need a specialized tool? Want to click one button instead of three? We use our monthly consultation meetings to get feedback from users and create new tools - from entirely new workflows to streamlined analysis pipelines. Our platform is also built to seamlessly integrate and connect with your in-house tools and workflows, further streamlining your analysis.