Streams archive
| Streams archive | |
|---|---|
| Type of site | Archive of recorded laboratory data |
| Owner | Molecular Reality Corporation |
| URL | molecularreality.com/streams |
| Launched | June 10, 2026 |
| Current status | Online |
| Entries | 18 |
The Streams archive is the public list of recordings from the live molecular stream of Molecular Reality Corporation. Each entry is a stretch of data from the laboratory's EDR4 amplifier, sampled 200,000 times a second, kept with stills from the bench's two cameras and the chat that ran beside it, and any visitor can scroll through it at full resolution.[1] In October 2026 the archive listed 18 entries, all made between June 10 and June 29, 2026, with about 86 minutes of recording between them. The first recordings in it are of air.
History
The page and its viewer were added to the company's website on June 10, 2026.[2] That evening, at 20:47 Arizona time, the bench recorded "air-test-10", which lasted about a minute and a half.[1]
In August 2026 the company's field guide described the archive as holding "eighteen recorded streams, from a seven minute tap water test all the way to longer campaigns". It added that "the count grows whenever the bench is busy", and that "The archive page always shows the latest number, so trust the page over my memory."[3] In late October the page showed eighteen.[1]
Contents
Eleven of the eighteen entries are air tests, among them air-test-10, two recordings each named air-test-11 and air-test-12, then air-test-20, air-test-24, air-test-25 and air-test-99. Recording a dry cell is a standard first check: with no liquid there is no path for ions, and the amplifier reports only its own leakage, pickup and noise.[4] Another, "air-test-june22-1637h", records in its name the hour at which it began.
The rest have other titles. "ppp" lasts 94 seconds. "airbubbletest-tap-wter", "tapwater-test-2" and "tapwatertest" were recorded on June 23, and the last of them is the "seven minute tap water test" of the field guide. On June 28 came "Crazy pet time". A "golden-test-stream", one minute of synthetic data, exists to test the viewer.[1]
| Date (2026) | Entries | Minutes recorded |
|---|---|---|
| June 10 | 2 | 3.9 |
| June 11 | 4 | 10.9 |
| June 12 | 5 | 16.9 |
| June 22 | 2 | 3.3 |
| June 23 | 3 | 45.6 |
| June 28 | 1 | 4.9 |
| June 29 | 1 | 1.0 |
The longest recording, "airbubbletest-tap-wter", runs 23 minutes and 51 seconds; the shortest, the second "air-test-11", runs 43.5 seconds. At 638 megabytes, "tapwater-test-2" is the largest.[1] Headed "Continuous" and dated June 29, the eighteenth entry is a one-minute test of continuous recording by the day, and holds a single averaged reading.
Records
Every entry records a sample, a pore and a flow cell. The early ones list a "Standard Nanopore" in a "Baseline Flowcell". One gives its pore as "thispore", and three later air tests give sample, pore and flow cell all as "Unchanged". The June 22 air test lists the "200 micron laser drilled" pore in a flow cell called "08-delrin-ptfe-demonpore2600-style". The three tap water tests list their sample as "air". "Crazy pet time" lists nothing. Except for the synthetic one, which comes from a device called "golden-synthetic-e4", all the recordings were made on the amplifier with the serial number e4-00044.[1]
The archive's records hold one more stream that the list does not show. "What-a-Day-for-a-Daystream" was begun on June 16, 2026, at 17:09 Arizona time, with "Phoenix tap water" in the 200-micron pore. It saved no minutes of data, and its status still reads "recording".[5]
Format
A recording is stored minute by minute. Each minute keeps the raw current as 16-bit numbers, the applied voltage, a summary of the signal twenty times a second, camera stills, chat and any notes made at the bench, and each recording carries a header giving its name, sample, pore, flow cell, cameras, length and size.[5] Start and stop times are given twice, in Coordinated Universal Time and in Arizona time. Arizona does not observe daylight saving time, so the archive's summer timestamps end in "MST", Mountain Standard Time, which is correct.[1]
Viewer
The list page shows each recording as a card giving its name, sample, pore, flow cell and device, its start and end in Arizona time, and its length and size. A search box looks through all of these at once. Clicking a card draws a small preview trace with its number of points and its range in nanoamperes. With nothing recorded, the page would say "No streams yet. Start a recording from the streaming page."[1]
"view full" opens a recording in a viewer of its own. The current is plotted over a range of plus or minus 200 nA, ten seconds at a time, with stills from the cameras labelled "Microscope" and "Fluidics". A box dragged across the trace zooms in, down to the individual samples; "Zoom default" zooms back out, and "Fit minute" shows one whole minute. The spike detector marks events beyond 3.8 standard deviations, and a "Chat Replay" panel shows what was said in LabChat while the recording was made. Links lead "← all streams" and "live →".[1]
See also
Notes
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Streams". Molecular Reality Corporation. Retrieved October 25, 2026.
- ^ "feat(streams): /streams page, blueprint, and offline full-rate viewer" (commit
148e937). epicquest.bio web application. June 10, 2026. - ^ "Keltar's Field Guide to Molecular Reality". Molecular Reality Corporation. August 2026.
- ^ Dr. Lenora Ashgrove (July 29, 2026). "Nineteen Billion Ions a Second, Live on the Internet". Signal & Noise.
- ^ a b "Company records". Molecular Reality Corporation. October 2026.