FXMATE is a software to statistically assess results generated from standardized biotests. It follows our “Made Totally Easy” principle which targets safe use even with limited statistical expertise while offering flexible use of state-of the-art methods.

FXMATE is an R-based Shiny app, letting you use all our favorite R packages for statistical biotest analysis without the need to know any R. The Shiny app is brought to you as a Docker container system, which makes the results reproducible. If you need to reproduce a specific result in the future, you simply go to the FXMATE version you used to produce it, which will be archived on our website.

Due to our distribution model, FXMATE offers reproducible results on every machine without any installation necessary. This also allows rapid updates and implementation of new methods and biotests. All decisions, methods and criteria in FXMATE are based on scientific references or agency documents (for example by the European Food and Safety Authority, EFSA). Furthermore, our software is no blind one-size-fits-all solution but provides you with easy-to-follow advice to identify the best analysis for your data.

FXMATE is free during our launch phase (i.e., until fall 2025). If you want to support us in keeping FXMATE freely available, contact us. If you register for free, you will not be automatically moved to a paid plan.

This is a safety feature to warrant 100% reproducible analyses. FXMATE has inputs that dynamically appear and adjust to your data, guiding your way toward the best possible analysis. To avoid any carryover of old settings to the new data (e.g., due to caching), FXMATE always starts with cleaned-up settings.

We currently support a limited number of guidelines (OECD 201, 202, 203, and 211) but are eager to substantially extend this selection in the coming months.

A documentation with full statistical background and user instructions will be available shortly.

For now, only our custom templates are supported. Support for free formats can be implemented in the future. If you need this feature, feel free to contact us.

Just create your free account and download them from your MATE Dashboard.

Just contact us via our contact form.

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FXMATE is Shiny-based and hence uses a technique called “lazy evaluation” that ensures computational and power efficiency. In practice this means that processes are only started when required (for example, when their output is in view). It can happen that you change panels or click inputs, while a process is running and the app appears to be stuck. This is solved by waiting 5-10 seconds and re-clicking something to evoke evaluation.