7.44.0 - Interop Library Upgrades

March 17, 2026

Features

• An interop library upgrade adds charting and sequencing statistics support for new flow cell types.

  • The upgrade will introduce changes to the QMetricsByLaneOut.bin file format. The QMetricsByLaneOut.bin file will now be created in the InterOpBaseSpace folder within the run folder. See this February 2026 release notification for more information.

• Updated Run Planning to always display OverrideCycles field regardless of instrument platform, if it is supported by the selected Application.

• Added %Demux in per lane run metrics for instruments that support it (currently MiSeq i100).

• Added support for planned Microarray analyses. Configure analyses ahead of time and have them automatically launch when all required sample data is available, enabling faster and more efficient analysis workflows.

• Moved "Start an analysis" action to Microarray Data Management page.

• Added "Start another analysis" option when launching Microarray Analysis.

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed an issue mapping biosamples to lanes for NovaSeqX runs, which could cause biosamples to unexpectedly show as being in all lanes.

• Fixed a bug that prevented uploading block-gzipped VCF files using the UI.

• Only FASTQ generation launched by a sequencing run's owner may update the run's index metrics.

• Users without an active subscription, and who have exceeded the 1 TB storage limit, cannot accept transfers of runs or projects to their account.

• Downloader 3.3: improved error messaging when the user provides an incorrectly formatted or unsupported type of output folder.