Private Identify
Identify a genome without uploading it. The sequence is sketched into a sourmash signature in your browser; only the signature leaves your machine.
What happens to your file
Signature, not sequence
Your genome is reduced to a compact sourmash signature right here in your browser, using WebAssembly. The sequence itself never leaves your machine. Only the signature is uploaded: a short list of hashes that cannot reconstruct the genome, so unpublished or sensitive assemblies stay entirely yours.
Ranked against the database
The signature is compared with every genome in genomeRxiv, and the closest relatives are ranked by average nucleotide identity.
A LIN is assigned
Your genome receives its address in the taxonomy: a LIN, the nearest LINgroups and described species, and a phylogenetic tree of its immediate neighborhood.