DECTRIS CLOUD is now DECTRIS D.LAB! New name, more powerful platform, same vision: The science platform where the lab's data, tools, compute, and analyses connect and grow in one place.

Where your science
connects and grows

DECTRIS D.LAB brings your lab's data, tools, compute, and analyses into one place.
Used by leading academic research groups
As science becomes more computational, collaborative, and complex, the challenge is no longer producing data but preserving, growing, and making knowledge durable
Connect Data
Scientific work is often scattered across instruments, drives, laptops, clusters, and cloud services. DECTRIS D.LAB brings data, tools, compute, and analysis together in a single shared environment.
One home. One overview. One source of truth.
Build Discovery
Scientific progress depends on building on previous work. DECTRIS D.LAB turns analyses into reusable scientific assets, enabling research groups to extend discoveries rather than recreate them.
The next discovery never starts from zero.
Grow Knowledge
A lab's most valuable asset is its knowledge. DECTRIS D.LAB preserves methods, decisions, analyses, and context, ensuring expertise remains accessible across projects and generations.
Knowledge grows instead of disappearing.
The science platform where your lab's data, tools, compute, and analyses live in one place
One shared
platform
Research is scattered across instruments, storage, compute, and personal devices. DECTRIS D.LAB brings data, tools, analyses, and context together in one shared environment, giving your group a single home for its scientific work.
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Rerun,
don't rebuild
Scientific progress shouldn't start from scratch. DECTRIS D.LAB turns past analyses into reusable assets, allowing your team to build on previous work, community tools, and proven methods in minutes, not days.
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Real-time
mentorship
The best scientific decisions happen through collaboration. DECTRIS D.LAB keeps researchers, postdocs, and PIs connected throughout the analysis process, enabling feedback, discussion, and mentorship where the work happens.
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Preserve scientific memory
A lab's most valuable asset is its accumulated knowledge. DECTRIS D.LAB preserves methods, decisions, analyses, and expertise so every project contributes to a growing body of knowledge that survives across generations of researchers.
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How DECTRIS D.LAB works
1. Select inputs
Pick your data and your workflow — from your group's catalogue, your past runs, or 30+ community-built tools, all preinstalled and ready to go. No install. No script translation. No environment to set up.
2. Run anywhere
Hit go. The workflow executes inside an immutable container — same result on 2 CPUs, 8 GPUs, the campus cluster, or soon, your own server. Scale by picking a node, not by rewriting code.
3. Discover, analyze, share
Every run is a persistent snapshot — inputs, software, scripts, outputs, results. Analyze inline. The Principal Investigator comments where decisions are made. Share the workflow with reviewers, collaborators, or the community.
One home for modern research
Twenty years ago, we built our first detector for scientists to reveal signals they couldn't see before. The cameras got faster and faster. The datasets got bigger and bigger. And then we noticed something: the knowledge, the context, and the accumulated understanding of what the data meant was fragmenting. D.LAB is our newest instrument: the one that reveals the science they couldn't extract from the data before."

Christian Brönnimann, Founder · DECTRIS
what scientists are saying
“DECTRIS D.LAB helps us focus on results and insights from large-scale data. It offers much-needed functionality to reproduce, share, and work together in this upcoming era of real-time open and community-driven science.”
Sagar Khavnekar
Independent Scientist,
Subspatial
what scientists are saying
“Hosting a hands-on workshop of this scale would have been nearly impossible without the support of DECTRIS D.LAB. Providing each participant with instant access to high-performance computing resources allowed us to focus on the scientific underpinning rather than the technical setup.”
Tilman Grünewald
CNRS researcher (COMiX team),
Institut Fresnel
what scientists are saying
“DECTRIS D.LAB made it straightforward to set up and share my software environment for our particle physics simulation workflow, which I can now re-run with configurable input in just a few clicks.”
Philip Ploner
Student,
ETH Zürich
what scientists are saying
"Once we go to the beamline, we come back and process the data on the platform. The interactive support is really helpful, and I'm quite happy. I want to keep using it, definitely."
Jacopo Tessarollo
Group Leader,
Chomnan University
A place where today’s work becomes tomorrow’s starting point
Shared analysis space
One workspace where your group's projects, data, and analyses live together — every member sees what's running, what's done, what's next.
Community tools, preinstalled
30+ vetted analysis tools ready to run on day one — no install, no script translation, no version-conflict triage.
Live collaboration
Comment inline on any run, any iteration. Mentors guide where decisions are made; students stop guessing. The PI is back in the work.
Direct-from-detector upload
Up to 95 Gbit/s per device. The data is in the workspace before the experiment is over — no drive staging, no Dropbox relay.
Automated versioning
Every run captures data, software, workflow, and results as an immutable snapshot — versioned automatically. Roll back, fork, or rerun anything.
Built on open standards
Open formats. Standard containers. Portable workflows. Everything can be reused and transposed to other systems outside of DECTRIS D.LAB, with no lock-in.
Science is done in teams
DECTRIS D.LAB suits rising academic groups that run experiments and conduct analyses across material and life science.
Principal Investigators
Your lab compounds across PhD generations — methods, decisions, and runs belong to the group, and survive attrition and team turnover
PhDs & PostDocs
Full control of your environment — bring any tool, run and re-run any pipeline on any compute from anywhere at any time.
Power Users
Build tools and workflows the community adopts and others cite — your work gets seen, attributed, and amplified.
More than data, compute or workflows — we help you to create durable knowledge
Over time, the lab becomes more than a collection of projects. It becomes a living body of scientific knowledge — a place where every experiment, workflow, decision, and result contributes to what comes next. A place where science connects and grows.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is DECTRIS D.LAB?
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DECTRIS D.LAB is the science platform where the lab's data, tools, compute and analyses live in one place. It is the home for your scientific projects, from data to results, for the entire team.
Who is DECTRIS D.LAB designed for?
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For academic research groups whose work scatters across too many systems. In particular, groups running experiments and analysis across distributed team members and locations.
Why should I use DECTRIS D.LAB?
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Because DECTRIS D.LAB is the science platform where the lab can work as one team! Data, tools, analysis tasks and insights connect and grow in one place, so projects survive student turnover, past work reruns in minutes, and every result stays inspectable and shareable.
What are the main platform capabilities?
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The platform is the home for your research projects, from managing files and access to executing analysis tasks and keeping a record of steps. D.LAB offers a complete workspacethat belongs to the lab, and does not stay isolated in individual workstations. It is one shared space for all lab data, scripts, and analyses; automatic environment versioning sopast work reruns in minutes without rebuilding; real-time collaboration tools — including alab activity overview, inline commenting on analysis tasks, and a shared analysis workspace— that keep the PI and the group in the loop as work happens; and a permanent scientificmemory — logbooks, run history, and versioned data.
Is DECTRIS D.LAB suitable for any Institute and Team?
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Yes. D.LAB scales from small research groups to large multi-team labs and enterprise research institutions — including universities and large research facilities — with configurable workspaces, access control and team grouping per research project.
Can analyses be reproduced?
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Yes. In DECTRIS D.LAB, data, software environment and the analysis tasks are captured as the group works, so one can rerun workflows and rest assured that the different states of files and libraries are kept. With its core designed to support reproducibility, D.LAB captures every step of the discovery journey, so you can always go back and retrieve what worked.
Can I rerun analyses?
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Yes. The platform captures full analysis snapshots — data, software environment, parameters, and compute — so any past run can be reproduced by any project member with access. Scripts are versioned and can be forked and adapted. The 30+ community tools are preinstalled and ready without setup. No environment to rebuild; no code to retranslate.
Can analysis results be shared?
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Yes. For each and every research project, analysis steps, software and data are shared with project members by default. The Lab owner (group leader or PI) has access to every project under their lab. Sharing results with other collaborators who do not have direct access to the platform is also possible via shared links.
Can researchers collaborate remotely?
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Yes. The platform is globally accessible via browser, so all collaborators can contribute to the research project wherever they are. Project members see live lab activity and can comment inline on any analysis task.
Does DECTRIS D.LAB support collaboration between PhDs and PIs?
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Yes. Working together as a research group is at the heart of D.LAB's capabilities. The platform's collaboration engine has been designed to enable researchers to perform scientific workflows of varying complexity, supported by a flexible software environment and a robust compute engine, while keeping Group Leaders and Principal Investigators close to the work and fostering communication among project members. Lab collaboration and decision-making can be done with full context, guidance, mentorship, and contributions from anywhere.
Can I organize and manage my research projects in DECTRIS D.LAB?
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Yes. DECTRIS D.LAB automatically connects everything related to a project in one space, so files, logs and analyses are organized and accessible, while remaining connected to the lab— so files and analysis details stay, even when students, postdocs and other staff leave.
Does DECTRIS D.LAB support Jupyter and Python?
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Yes. D.LAB supports a variety of programming languages with fully customizable programming environments that let researchers work with Python, C++, R and others. Additionally, it offers browser-based Python sessions and Jupyter environments for interactive analysis.
Can I execute automated jobs?
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Yes. Users can create reusable job templates and execute automated processing workflows via the UI or using API endpoints for full integration with lab infrastructure and powerful automation.
Does it scale compute resources?
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Yes. D.LAB orchestrates CPU and GPU resources on demand, leveraging cloud-native capabilities to extend local infrastructure. It provides on-demand CPU and GPU resources, plus elastic storage for data-intensive workloads, so researchers are not limited by local hardware constraints.
Does DECTRIS D.LAB provide compliance information?
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DECTRIS D.LAB is GDPR compliant. Compliance documentation is available to institutionalIT and procurement teams on request.
Does DECTRIS D.LAB support single sign-on (SSO)?
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SSO is not enabled by default. Custom SSO capabilities can be requested for Enterprise plans — contact us to discuss your institution's requirements.
How is security validated?
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DECTRIS conducts independent penetration testing annually and maintains a programme of continuous security improvements. Further documentation is available to institutional IT teams on request.
How is user access managed?
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Access in D.LAB is managed through a role-based system scoped to each project. There are four access levels: Owners have full control; Managers can configure the workspace and manage members; Members can run analyses and contribute; Viewers can inspect results without making changes. The lab owner — typically the group leader or PI — is automatically granted ownership of all projects created under their lab.
Is data encrypted and protected?
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Yes. The platform uses encrypted data transfer and is built on a secure architecture. Access to data is strictly controlled through the role-based permission system.
Anything else you’d like to know? Get in touch with our team, and we’d be happy to discuss your questions.