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Biomni Lab uses projects and tasks to organize your work, with a Drive system to manage files across your analyses.

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The Sidebar

The sidebar lets you navigate between projects and view all your tasks and files in one place.

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Project Selector

Use the dropdown at the top of the sidebar to switch between projects. You can also create a new project directly from this dropdown.

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Tasks Tab

The Tasks tab shows all conversation tasks within the selected project:
  • Click a task to open it
  • Use the search bar to filter tasks by name
  • Hover over a task to rename or delete it
  • Click + to start a new task

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Files Tab

The Files tab shows all files the agent can see for the current project:
  • Browse uploaded files and agent-generated results
  • Expand folders to see nested contents
  • Search across all files and folders
  • Click the eye icon to preview a file
  • Click the external link icon to open the full Drive view

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Projects vs Tasks

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Projects

A project is a container for related work. Use projects to:
  • Group analyses around a research question or dataset
  • Share files across multiple tasks
  • Keep related work organized together
Example projects:
  • “RNA-seq Analysis - Treatment vs Control”
  • “CRISPR Screen - Gene Knockouts”
  • “Protein Structure Predictions - Kinase Family”

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Tasks

A task is a single conversation with Biomni Lab within a project. Each task has:
  • Its own chat history
  • Access to all files in the project
  • Generated results specific to that analysis
Example tasks within a project:
  • “Differential expression analysis”
  • “GO enrichment of upregulated genes”
  • “Volcano plot and heatmap visualization”

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Quick Tasks

When you first join Biomni Lab, a Quick Tasks project is automatically created for you. This is your default workspace for:
  • One-off analyses
  • Exploring Biomni Lab’s capabilities
  • Quick questions or lookups
Quick Tasks works just like any other project—you can create multiple tasks within it and files are shared across all Quick Tasks.
You can create additional projects anytime to organize work by research question or dataset.

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File Visibility

The agent can automatically see all files in the current project:
File LocationAgent Can See?
Any file in the current projectYes
Files in other projectsNo (must be uploaded or @ mentioned)
The agent sees all project files automatically. You don’t need to attach files each time—just describe what you want to do and the agent will find the relevant files in your project.

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Uploading Files

Upload files in several ways:
  1. Drag and drop files into the chat or Drive
  2. Click upload in the Drive toolbar
  3. Attach to chat using the paperclip icon

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Using Files in Analysis

Reference files in your requests:
  • Project files: The agent automatically sees them—just describe what you want to do
  • Specific files: Use @ mentions to reference files by name
Example: "Run differential expression on the RNA-seq counts
using the sample metadata file"
The agent will find the relevant files in your project automatically.