Canvas Templates
Save and reuse analysis layouts as starter templates for your team.
Canvas templates let org admins save sessions as reusable starting points for common workflows. Instead of rebuilding the same QC-clustering-annotation pipeline from scratch, publish it once and let every team member start from a known-good layout.
Overview
Templates are org-scoped analysis packages marked as starters. They include data files, plots, and the full canvas layout. When a member opens a template, a fresh session is created with all content restored -- the original stays untouched.
Templates support six domain categories for filtering: single-cell, proteomics, genomics, metabolomics, transcriptomics, and general. This makes it easy to find the right starting point in organizations with diverse workflows.
How to Create a Template
Build your analysis
Run your workflow in a session until the canvas has the layout you want to share -- loaded data, generated plots, and arranged nodes.
Open the publish dialog
Click the Publish to Team icon in the chat header. Toggle the Publish as template option and select a category (e.g., "single-cell").
Add details
Give the template a descriptive name (e.g., "PBMC scRNA-seq Starter") and an optional description explaining what the template includes.
Publish
Click Publish. The template becomes available to all members of your organization.
Browsing Templates
Open the Data drawer from the activity bar. The Start from Template section lists all published templates for your org. Use the category dropdown to filter by domain (e.g., only proteomics templates).
Click Open on any template. A new session is created with the data, plots, and canvas layout from the template. You can modify your copy freely without affecting the original.
Templates include data files but do not auto-ingest them into memory. After opening a template, load the dataset from the files panel if you need to run new analyses on it.
Tips
- Name templates by workflow, not data. "scRNA-seq QC + Clustering" is more reusable than "PBMC Dataset Analysis."
- Keep templates lean. Include only the plots and data that define the workflow. Members can always add more.
- Update by re-publishing. To update a template, open it, make changes, and publish again under the same name.
- Only org admins can publish templates. All org members can browse and open them.