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Projects

Projects are top-level spaces in Rowan that make it easy to organize, share, and reuse your work.

Overview

A project groups related workflows, folders, and saved molecular structures together. Each project has its own home folder, sharing settings, and structure repository, helping you keep separate research directions, targets, or experiments neatly contained.

You might create a new project when:

  • Starting a new research direction or publication series
  • Beginning work on a new protein target or compound family
  • Organizing workflows by client, grant, or study

Workflows within a project can be organized into folders, starred, shared, and annotated. Creating a new project automatically creates a new home folder, so you can start clean without losing access to your other work.

Managing Projects

When you first log into Rowan, the home page (https://labs.rowansci.com) will show you all of your projects.

The home page of Rowan shows a list of all projects

From this page, you can either go to a project's home folder (by clicking on its name or its row) or to its structure repository (by clicking on the "Structures" button).

The three-dot menu on a project row

By click the three-dot menu on a project row, you can:

  • Rename the project
  • Set the project as default
  • Manage sharing
  • Delete the project

You can also create new projects from this page.

Sharing & Access Controls

Projects support role-based access control:

  • Owner: Full control over the project and its members
  • Collaborators: Can view and create workflows, structures, and notes within the project

The sharing modal of a project

Sharing a project shares all its contained workflows and folders with collaborators. You can adjust access at any time from the project settings page.

Inside Organizations

Within an organization, organization users with the role "admin" and "owner" are granted view-only access to all projects created by their organization's members.

Saving Structures

Each project includes a structure repository for saving and reusing:

  • Molecular structures (SMILES, XYZ)
  • Protein sequences and structures

Saved structures can be quickly loaded into any job submission form.

Setting a Default for API Usage

When submitting jobs via the API:

  • If no folder_uuid is provided, jobs are placed in the home folder of your default project.
  • You can set any project you own as your default from the account settings page.
  • The default project cannot be deleted.