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Good as a digital laboratory notebook
What do you like best about the product?
I liked the ease of use as a digital laboratory notebook, the ability to add in functional tables, link detailed protocols, and tag people.
What do you dislike about the product?
I disliked the use of benchling as a data and sample tracking system. It was very difficult to both use and navigate even after getting something more complex built out for our use. We ended up scraping our use it for that purpose.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helped to have consise digital laboratory records that are easily accessible by many and can contain multiple researchers.
So Easy and Convenient
What do you like best about the product?
I have worked for many companies and they all use benchling, the best part is Benchling's versatility (i.e. designing plasmids, ELNs, SOPs) and its ease of use - it is very to use and learn it. It also helps that it is a website and not an app and can be accessed anywhere.
What do you dislike about the product?
The downsides of benchling is sometimes it is unclear where the document is within projects. It sometimes is hard to organize documents within these subcategories.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is great for writing SOPs and ELNs, it also allows for the visualization of the gene of interest. This helps us design and organize experiments and give everyone in the organization access.
An user-friendly online labbook
What do you like best about the product?
the user-friendly interface and the template tab makes easy and fast to keep record of the experiment.
What do you dislike about the product?
I can't think of any disadvatages. It would be great to have customisable tag/category for the template to simplify the search.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
it helps the whole organisation to standardise the lab notebook records across the world.
Benchling: A great tool for graduate school and industry
What do you like best about the product?
I love the integration of an electronic lab notebook with a suite of tools for molecular cloning. As a molecular biologist, I use benchling constantly and it has made me a better scientist.
What do you dislike about the product?
The worst thing about Benchling by far is the file management. It is tedious to move and duplicate files and challenging to search for files. Copying and pasting files is very clunky. I don't understand why they can't just do a normal file management set up like other programs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Benchling helps me a lot with mocleular cloning and keeping all of my sequences and primers organized in one place. It also helps me and my colleagues share and work on lab notebook entries simulatenously.
I wish I had know about Benchling when I began my PhD a lifetime ago
What do you like best about the product?
All-in-one suite that is much more than electronic lab notebook or inventory
What do you dislike about the product?
It is a bit of a learning curve, but that is unavoidable for this much of an all-round solution
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sharing information between team members effectively
Benchling allows you to structure data to save time and gain valuable insights.
What do you like best about the product?
Benchling enables you to define a rich, biologically-aware data model, which connects to inventory, sample management, and structured electronic notebook entries.
What do you dislike about the product?
Benchling has a good API and Python SDK, but lacks good documentation and does not have sufficient examples or guides for developers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Tracking sample data and storing data in a structured way that can be easily analysed and visualised.
Seriously streamlined, intuitive, and user friendly
What do you like best about the product?
Setting up new entity schemas and templates for users is super fast, thanks largely to the easy to use interface, and the great selection of built-in entities to choose from (dropdowns, dates, Sequence data etc). This allows us to very quickly set up new classes of data, and new types of document. The flexibility this comes with allows us to store a great variety of data within benchling, so we can have everything organized in one place.
What do you dislike about the product?
The most obvious struggle with benchling is transferring objects from the test instance of benchling, to the live instance. Though it is great that these 2 instances are kept totally seperate, it does mean that I am repeating the process of object setup everytime I want to create a new entity schema or notebook template etc. Some mechanism to download finished objects from test and upload to live would save so much time and human error. additionally There are still some niche functionalities that would be useful for us, such as linking out to internal web-apps.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Taking lab documents (such as risk assessments and SOPs) online, recording training, managing and annotating our sequence data, logging the location and usage of reagents, managing orders - essentially creating one single platform to run all our day-to-day lab processes from.
R&D Lab Notebook
What do you like best about the product?
Lots of features, easy to connect all data to an entity
What do you dislike about the product?
Not the most user friendly, lots of features but difficult to find them
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
All data is consolidated onto 1 platform and is secure
Analytical chemists use it too
What do you like best about the product?
it's expandability to into other type of work within bio-investigative work
What do you dislike about the product?
learning curve is steep but worth it once you realize all its capable of doing for a team
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
connectivity among the team was a big issue. now visibility and connectivity is solved
Very useful tool and so much more than just an online lab book!
What do you like best about the product?
Benchling is very easy to use, with a lot of readily available online training courses and webinars. It's been great for everyday note taking, SOP writing and sample tracking. It makes sharing experimental details and lab notes simple across the organisation simple and user friendly. Benchling offers much more than being an electronic lab book.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it can be a bit slow, specially when trying to upload gel images onto the notebook entry. The sequence data analysis feature is a bit basic, and doesn't let you link specific sequences to particular entities in your notebook entry.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Benchling is currently looking in to implementing subtemplates, which makes writing templates for similar methodologies much easier as I can just re-use templates.
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