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Ask the assistant

Open Plasmole AI, pick an assistant, give it records to work with and set how it answers.

Plasmole AI answers questions and works on your plasmids, entries and projects. It asks before most changes to your records. See Approve what the AI changes.

Open the assistant

  1. Click AI Assistant on the left rail.
  2. Or press Ctrl/Cmd+K and pick Ask Plasmole (AI Assistant).
  3. Click New chat to start fresh. Past chats are listed under Chats.

Pick an assistant

Click the assistant chip in the message box, or use its shortcut.

Assistant Shortcut Use it for
Auto Alt+S Lets the AI choose the best specialist
Core Alt+C General molecular biology guidance
Design Alt+D Plasmid design, editing and sequence analysis
Research Alt+R Literature and protocol guidance

Give it records to work with

  1. Type @ in the message, or click + and pick Add a plasmid, entry or file.
  2. Choose records from your workspace.

Ask about an entry

  1. In an entry, select text. Select nothing to ask about the whole entry.
  2. Click Ask AI in the toolbar or press Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+L. With text selected, you can also right-click and pick Ask AI.

Work with papers

  1. Pick Research.
  2. Ask it to search PubMed. It asks before it saves papers to the project library.

Core and Design can read an open-access paper in full, only under a CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA license.

See what it remembers

  1. Open Settings from the workspace menu, then AI Memory.
  2. Click Open Memory Explorer to browse, edit or delete what it learned.
  3. To add something, type "remember that ..." in a chat.

Set how it answers

Open Settings > AI Assistant. You can set Verbosity Level, Response Tone, Formatting Style, Show Helpful Tips and Show AI Reasoning.

Something missing or wrong? Email [email protected].