How to cite Meniscus
If Meniscus produced a number that appears in something you publish, please cite it. Citations are the only currency a free research tool earns, and they are what keeps it maintained.
Concentrations were interpolated from the calibration curve using Meniscus v0.8.0 (Alghamdi, 2026), whose numerical routines are validated against independent SciPy and NumPy implementations (doi:10.5281/zenodo.22258400).
Alghamdi, A. (2026). Meniscus: a local-first microplate assay workbench (Version 0.8.0) [Computer software]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22258400
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author = {Alghamdi, Ali},
title = {Meniscus: a local-first microplate assay workbench},
version = {0.8.0},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Zenodo},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.22258400},
url = {https://meniscus.app}
}TY - COMP AU - Alghamdi, Ali TI - Meniscus: a local-first microplate assay workbench PY - 2026 DO - 10.5281/zenodo.22258400 UR - https://meniscus.app ER -
What the DOI actually points at
Not a download page. The record archived at that DOI contains the validation materials: the confidence ledger listing every numerical module and its status, the oracle scripts that check each one against SciPy or NumPy, and the reference datasets they run on.
It is deposited so that a reviewer who wants to know whether the arithmetic is right can find out for themselves, rather than taking the claim on trust. Anyone with Python can re-run the checks in a few minutes.
The materials are released under CC BY 4.0. The application itself is separate and not covered by that licence.
Citing a specific version
The DOI above resolves to version 0.8.0 permanently, which is usually what you want in a manuscript — a citation should lead a reader to exactly what you used, not to whatever the software became later.
Every Meniscus report prints its own app and engine version alongside the source file hash, so you can always tell which version produced a given result.
If you want a reference that always points at the newest release instead — for a lab wiki or a resources page rather than a paper — use 10.5281/zenodo.22258399. That one follows every future version.