The JIPipe Antimicrobial Susceptibility Test (J-AST) platform is your tool for managing, annotating, and analyzing disk diffusion assays and E-tests. It is available as web application and local desktop software.

* Limited guest accounts. Permanent accounts can be created on request. Uploaded data may be deleted at any point. See our privacy policy for more information. We recommend using the desktop application or hosting the tool within your institute.
Latest version: 1.0.0.135 released on 2026-10-08
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What can J-AST do for you?

Maximum flexibility

Interactive & Automatic

J-AST lets you freely utilize automated and interactive tools - do the majority of work automated and apply manual fixes if something was not correctly annotated

Analyze your DDAs and Etests

RAD and FoG

J-AST comes with a new algorithm that extends the FoG and RAD measurements (Gerstein et al., 2016) to Etests and also collects additional information.

Analyze your Etests

Automated MIC analysis

J-AST comes with an open source image analysis algorithm that automatically detects the MIC in Etests.

Organization

Managing your metadata

J-AST comes with powerful metadata management features that allow you to automatically extract information from file names. Using interactive editors you can at any point refine the information or add additional data.

Run anywhere

Desktop & cloud

J-AST is designed to be both a web-based cloud tool and a desktop software (Windows/Linux/macOS), enabling maximum flexibility regarding where and how the software can be used.

Built on JIPipe

Stable and extensible foundation

J-AST is using JIPipe as the foundation behind the image analysis operations, facilitating easy extensibility.