Origin 2026b Features

Life Science Workflow

Share some key feature from Stats mode to Life Science mode

Use Prism XML for Drag and Drop

Import

CSV Connector supports auto detect complex data.

Improve clonedc dialog to support duplicating books with more files.

Database Import by default import image as embedded Image window

If there are some empty lines between main header with leading character, then set By Leading Character in Import Wizard or impASC dialog will skip the empty lines and go on detecting main header.

Export

When install Life Science Mode, there is File: Open Prism… after File: Open… entry.

Support import Prism file (.xml, .pzfx, .prism, .prismt) to automatically construct structured worksheet by using Prism Connector

Improve about 40% percent faster.

Life Science Mode is introduced in Origin 2026b to focus on life science workflows.

Added system variable @RDC to control if remove data connector after import.

Data Table access to Origin's powerful graphing capabilities via Plot menu, which provides hundreds of templates and let you plot a fully customized graph in one-click.

Add Data Connector control with four options in Preferences: Options dialog Miscellaneous tab.

  1. Lock imported data

  2. Allow data sorting

  3. Unlock data after import

  4. Remove connector after import

Add Transparent Background option for png image on Export Graphs (Advanced) dialog

Reimport recent data file from start menu or Data menu will remember the table type

Paste from Prism table will smartly constructure worksheet as corresponding structure table

Startup dialog for Life Science Mode

Most statistics tools are accessible from Statistics main menu, and frequently-used tools support replicate values

Support new structure table like Prism

Provide table icon at the top-left Corner of worksheet for Data Table

support export HMTL Notes as mhtml file

Added Exclude Imported when Saving node to Miscellaneous tab of Preferences: Options dialog.

Unstack Column supports generate Data Table

Analysis

A parametric and nonparametric graphical tool used in reliability and survival analysis to visualize the distribution of time-to-event data.

Support Frequency for Right Censoring data when excuting Parametric Distribution Analysis

Similar Stats Advisor, add the Menu under Analysis to Help to determine the appropriate predictive modeling/tool/App.

A tool used in Reliability and Survival Analysis to model time-to-event data that is subject to a mixture of exact, right-, left-, or interval-censored observations.

More graphs are supported in Hypothesis Testing: One Proportion Test for conclusion.

More graphs are supported in Hypothesis Testing: Two Proportion Test for conclusion.

Improve the GUI to make this APP user-friendly.

Use consistent menu for multiple tests in Hypothesis Test and Power and Sample Size

Both cross-tab raw data and contingency table are available as input in this tool.

Identify the distribution for Parametric Distribution Analysis for Right Censoring data.

Available for Power and Sample Size with 2-Level Factorial or Plackett-Burman design.

In Design of Experiment App, support more characters for factor name/level when creating/analyzing the design.

Improve the GUI to make Design of Experiment APP user-friendly.

New tool to test whether the rate (mean) of a Poisson-distributed process equals a specific value.

New tool to test whether the event rates from two independent Poisson-distributed populations are significantly different.

Non-Parametric Distribution Analysis for Right Censoring new tool are availale in Reliability and Survival Analysis app.

Pre-process the Warranty Data before the Warranty Prediction.

Support Arrange Plots of Same Type in One Graph
and Arrange Residual Plots in One Graph checkbox checked at same time

Improvements for the One/Two-Proportion/Variance Test tool under Power and Sample Size main menu

Fit Curve and Residual Plot use thicker line and smaller symbol, consistent color

Subtract Straight Line now supports opening dialog with output choice and recalculation.

More Distributions are supported since Origin 2026b

Add prediction result in report of Parametric Distribution Analysis for Right Censoring tool.

For Linear Fit and Polynomial Fit, support output Leverages, Cook’s Distance, Atkinson’s T

For Linear Fit, support show Indicate Outliers in Fitted Curve, the check is enable Linear fit from worksheet and arrange plots of same type in one graph is clear

Support custom point maker and label like below:

  1. move label for all

  2. ctrl to move 1 label

  3. delete point maker

  4. ctrl+delete 1 point maker

  5. Double click point maker will open dialog to further custom the point maker and label

Quick way to open the corresponding change parameters dialog by clicking on output curve

Support multiple total values in mixture design of Design of Experiment App

After fitting, a lot of fitted parameters output into report sheet, click Create Copy as New Sheet context menu will pop up dialog to pick custom parameter

The power and sample size for a one-sample Poisson rate address how many observations are needed to detect a specified difference between a hypothesized rate and the true rate, with a given level of confidence. And data is assumed to follow a Poisson distribution.

New tool to compare the difference between two population rates, can used to detect the difference between power, sample size, and the comparison proportion.

Improvements for the One/Two/Paired-Sample T-test tool under Power and Sample Size main menu

Provide built-in distribution functions for SPC

More analysis tool’s result info moved from Comment row to Method row

For analysis on multiple plot one operation, now only show one graph lock under layer icon.

In old version, it will show too many graph lock

Support for the following design types:

  1. Factorial Design

  2. Response Surface Design

  3. Definitive Screening Design

Support pre-processing the variability data then analyze to exam how much the response varies across different factor settings

Dunnett Means Comparison is available for One-Way ANOVA since Orign 2026b

Both Duplicate this Operation and Duplicate Operation for Specific Sheets are supported for:

  1. Statistics on Columns/Rows

  2. Normality Test

  3. All ANOVA tools

  4. ROC Curve

The SEM for Mean Difference calculation method is updated for Equal Variance is not Assumed.

In Parametric Distribution Analysis for Right Censoring tool, two-sided, Lower Bound, Upper Bound CI are supported.

Select the optimal design from a set of design created by DOE for improvement.

Use an overlaid contour plot to find the region where predicted responses meet the target criteria.

Probability plot is available in Normality Test tool for better normality detection.

Random Forest is an ensemble learning method that improves accuracy and stability by constructing multiple decision trees and combining their predictions.

Regression with life data to model how predictors influence product failure time.

Use Sample Size for Estimation to :

  1. Estimate the sample size for the desired margin of error(s).

  2. Estimate the margin of error for given sample size(s).

  1. Support Graphical Summary Report with Tukey(Default); Bonferroni; Dunn-Sidak; Fisher’s LSD; Scheffe' method

  2. Support Graphical Diagnostics Report

  3. Support Graphical Power Analysis Report

  4. Support Effect Size Table

Support the following test plan tools to to design efficient life tests or accelerated life tests (ALT):

  1. Test Plan for Demonstration

  2. Test Plan for Estimation

  3. Test Plan for Accelerated Life Testing

The Test for Homogeneity of Proportions is used to determine whether several populations (or groups) have the same proportion of a certain characteristic.

Remove the missing value check on Y data

Support Row Index as X Source, all selected column will be treated as Y, and always show Time Label Column to set X tick label

Open Reliability and Survival Analysis app then click the Warranty Analysis button to open the tool. Set one value/multi values/column as the Production Quantity Value(s).

Data Handling

Support inserts a SVG image to embed into worksheet cell

Context menu to add/insert column to similar sheets

Cell formula in User-defined label row will be automatically added to newly added columns

Easy way to turn on Auto Rescale of graphs in worksheet

Mini toolbar button adds to convert text in label cell to LaTex

For German version, support copy excel formula with localized Excel function names

Improve Ctrl + Enter to support whole column and hidden rows

Imrove Flash Fill to trim arbitrary spaces in text smartly

Ctrl+Shift+V for Paste (Keep Space)

Keep the Worksheet View context menu shows after check/uncheck a item

Mirror column to other sheets that doesn’t take storage

Mirror a whole sheet to other book or folder

New option in the Options dialog to decide the Enter key direction inside worksheet

Rescale, Rescale X, Rescale Y toolbar buttons are enabled in worksheet

If function returns Complex, SCV will auto set column format as Complex

Support setting column width for multiple worksheets in the same time

Show Y count in column header

Support Group for ROI in Matrix/Image

1.Support trim spaces when paste from Excel

2.Improve Trim() function to trim spaces.

Unstack Columns support sorting Other Column by categorical order in result sheet

Graphing

When adding reference lines, user can pick values from column label rows

Add Option to add reference line for all layer. Two radio are added in left-bottom corner of Insert Reference Lines dialog

In Stats Mode, add Hide/Show Masked Data Points button after Masked Points on Active Plot.

When click Annotation tool, dialog with some customize setting will pop up

Common speed improvement on Graph creation

Add a new checkbox Draw Valid Step Segments for Missing Value in Plot Details Page’s Display tab.

Improve the Graph Annotator to easy use

Graph Maker Scatter supports Y with Multiple X. and use different dataset indcator for Y with Multiple X

  1. Split Panels by is renamed to Horizontal Panels by

  2. Add Vertical Panels by under Horizontal Panels by

Origin 10.3b now supports preview panel for Grouped Histogram dialog

support Hide if Less Than(%) option for showing Labels for Nodes.

  1. Add Data Scaling Level control

  2. Support Horizontal and Vertical Panels by

  3. Add Split Data by Control for Label row

  4. Add Multiple Data Groups control

  5. Add Graph Theme: Box_Individual Value

  1. Add Data Scaling Level control

  2. Support Horizontal and Vertical Panels

  1. Support Horizontal and Vertical Panels

  2. Add Split Data by Control for Label row

  3. Add Multiple Data Groups control

  1. Support Horizontal and Vertical Panels

  2. Add Split Data by Control for Label row

  3. Add Multiple Data Groups control

  1. Add control Show Table for Count and Cumulative Percent

  2. Add info to indicate input data

Add a new method Offset Overlapped in Arrange Points option for box plot

Master Page works for 3D.

Distance/Angle Annotation support snap to 45° when hold Shift key

Add Line Color option on the right side of Line Thickness in Graph Options: Axes tab.

Support mini toolbar on Object Manager when mouse cursor is not pointer

Add 2 more options on Tick Label After Break tab

Add control All Groups in One Layer

  1. Flip Through Multiple Pages in Preview

  2. Provide Identifier Combo for Preview

  1. Support Horizontal and Vertical Panels

  2. Support Y with Multiple X

  3. Support Output to Graph

  4. Support Individual Value Plot

Origin 2026b provide ratio to switch output for all the plotting XF that provide report sheet.

Select columns designated as "XYZ..." to make overlaid contour plot.

An Overlaid Contour plot can be used to visually identify a region where the predicted means for one or more response variables all fall within an acceptable range, which means the effective trade-offs and compromises can be achieved among the various responses.

Support hide recalculation locks in graphs globally if too many

Add a new control Data Points Arrangement in Plot Details dialog’s Display tab (plot level).

Add Graph name tab to set Graph long name and page title

When dragging axis, we change it as % by default.

Calculate the slope between two selected points based on their coordinate values

Add control Order under Plot Details dialog’s Display tab (in plot level)

Similar to Overlaid contour plot, but require another Z.

Select columns designated as "XYZZ..." to make Ternary overlaid contour plot.

Add Transparency for Fill Only checkbox after Transparency control.

When there is no available color list, we will use system increment list instead of classic.

Support add a single axis break with Axis mini toolbar button

Miscellaneous

Support Search Bar in App Center dialog

Support batch plotting for operation with multiple pages

Introduced Specify Offset by Target Column node to specify column offset by select target column in middle table.

1.Added Batch Plot for node with following options.

  • Active Page

  • All in Active Folder

  • All in Active Folder (Recursive)

  • All in Active Folder (Open)

  • All in Active Folder (Include Embedded)

  • All in Project

  • Specified

2.AddED New Layer of Original Graph as an option in Plot Selected to node.

Combine Use Associated X and Match X by Offset as combo “X/Error Mapping Method” with three options.

  1. Use Original Column

  2. Use Associated Column

  3. Match by Column Offset

When start data highlighter from graph, show Data Info Panel.

In highlighter mini toolbar, can turn on/off the panel

Switch graph window will show the panel for active graph

In top-right corner of Data Info Panel, click Specify Data Info to custom list in panel

Introduced following features for Find in Project Files dialog.

  1. Limit Number of Files

  2. Include Data Cells(1st Match)

  3. Match column

Support hot key to show active layer when two or more layers

Improve time when opening and closing documents

Add a new checkbox “Keep Objects' Size/Position On Size Change” in Print/Dimensions tab of layout’s Plot Details dialog. if this checkbox is on, objects sizes will not change even though layout dimensions are changed.

When click report sheet cell, support 5 more Mini Toolbar button

  1. Create Copy as New Sheet

  2. Digits

  3. Send to Word

  4. Send to PowerPoint

  5. Send to Layout

Support Clear All Formatting mini toolbar to remove format of text objects when select multiple objects

Project Browser Column mode improvements

Project Save As dialog Comment Box can be make wider.

  1. Add Contents Column for Graph window for searching Text Objects

  2. Notes window full contents search and highlight in tooltip of last search

  3. Support search embedded graph in Project Browser

Search Plot Type in Search Box Show Full Path

Not allow Project Explorer dockable window to be too narrow

Shorten Search Box in the menu

Support Saving Image Window

When using tool like Distance Annotahen using tool like Distance Annotation on overlapping layers, show indicate active layer.

Also support switch layer with layer icon or hwitch layer with layer icon or hot key: Ctrl+Alt+L when using tool

Programming

Added following two OC functions.

int AnyNANUM(vector<BOOL>& vAnyNANUM, int nDim = 1);
int AllNANUM(vector<BOOL>& vAllNANUM, int nDim = 1);

Add following OC function to reverse vector.

BOOL vectorbase::Reverse()

Added following OC function.

double ocmath_betainv(double p, double a, double b);

Disable Python function quit() in Origin's embedded Python.

Add Inside() function to return the substring enclosed by a matching pair of marks.

Add StripLeading() function to remove a single leading list marker (number, letter, or bullet) followed by whitespace.

Add IFerror() function to handle error in a formula

BookNames() and SheetNames() functions are added to get all book and sheet short names from current book, folder or project.

Import plotxy to support X Error and Plus Minus Error

Add SumSq() function to calculates the sum of the squares of a given set of numbers.

Support <> comparison operator to mean not equal

Update Scintilla to newer version 5.5.8, so Code builder supports some new features like edit blocks in multiple lines at one time.

Introduced OriginC Autocomplete app to call cpptools to support more features for Code Builder:

  1. Auto Complete

  2. Go to definition (Press F11 on a symbol)

  3. Show document when hover on a symbol

  4. List symbols in active document (Alt+M)

  5. Find all references to a selected symbol (Shift+Alt+F)

Added following OC function.

OC_API bool okutil_http_range_request_to_buffer(ByteArray* parrContents,
    LPCOSTR lpcszUrl, const HttpRangeRequestParameters* lpParameters = NULL,
    StringArray* psaResponseHeaders = NULL, StringArray* psaLogs = NULL);

Add LabTalk function for Box-Cox, Johnson and Yeo-Johnson transformation.

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