Benchling is a modern research platform that connects the entire R&D lifecycle — from project documentation and data acquisition to sequence design, sample management, process management, and reporting. By standardizing and centralizing R&D workflows on a single platform, Benchling helps forward-thinking companies accelerate their digital lab transformation to enable better, faster decision-making.
The Benchling Life Sciences R&D Cloud replaces legacy ELN and LIMS offerings with seven integrated applications: Notebook, Molecular Biology, Registry, Inventory, Requests, Workflows and Insights. The applications provide a unified platform and seamless user experience that enables codeless configuration, lab automation, API usage, and more.
Benchling currently powers high-impact life science R&D across thousands of commercial, government, and academic organizations around the globe.
Elizabeth K.
Advanced user of Benchling
★★★★★
Benchling makes notebook entries easy and efficient
What do you like best?
The ease of use of Benchling as a whole. The Benchling notebook entry templates make it easy for creating standard protocols that are used often. The ability to link notebook entries, registry items and tag people in entries is also helpful for linking all protocols/items related to a specific experiment. The registry and inventory tables have helped us create and keep track of entity items that we are regularly generating (e.g. plasmids, IgG production).
What do you dislike?
There are limitations to the functions that can be done in tables created in lab notebook entries (e.g. paste function from merged cells doesn't work, not as advance formula functions as Excel). As well, some of new features of Benchling have not been of use to us (e.g. Insights).
Only downside of Benchling has been the fact that it is web browser based and a couple of times internet access has gone down at our workplace (or once there was an issue with AWS on Benchling's side) and we couldn't access any of our notebook entries/protocols, which inhibited us from doing any experiments for a short period of time (e.g. 1-2 hours).
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
Benchling has aided us in documenting our experiments, keeping tracking of our antibody production and lead candidate selection as part of our drug discovery efforts.
Review source: G2.com
