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What do you like best about the product?
The inventory is extremely useful to keep track of things.
Its a single hub to do most things I require. Alignments, protein parameters, cloning etc
Its a single hub to do most things I require. Alignments, protein parameters, cloning etc
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes making multiple entities that require a lot of fields can be time consuming. Having an autofil option could be useful.
Alignments of circular DNA with different indexation do not work well.
No codon optimisation tool.
Steep learning curve (although this is because it is quite good).
Alignments of circular DNA with different indexation do not work well.
No codon optimisation tool.
Steep learning curve (although this is because it is quite good).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is the best way I have found to manage my lab notes. Its very easy to track projects and go back to an old experiment.
Great ELN and Bioregistry
What do you like best about the product?
Benchling is a modern cloud architecture and interface, as well as a continuously developing set of rich features around biologics workflows.
The ELN is extremely flexible and interacts nicely with the bioregistry and inventory applications. We have successfully implimented Benchling's ELN and bioregistry across highly diverse teams and workflows, including NGS, pathology, in-vivo pharmacology, and cell engineering. Together with the more recent feature around regulated workflows, Benchling can comfortably accommodate research from early discovery to drug development, completely ad-hoc data entry to structured sample and result registration.
Benchling's support, attention and responsiveness to user feedback has also been impressive.
The ELN is extremely flexible and interacts nicely with the bioregistry and inventory applications. We have successfully implimented Benchling's ELN and bioregistry across highly diverse teams and workflows, including NGS, pathology, in-vivo pharmacology, and cell engineering. Together with the more recent feature around regulated workflows, Benchling can comfortably accommodate research from early discovery to drug development, completely ad-hoc data entry to structured sample and result registration.
Benchling's support, attention and responsiveness to user feedback has also been impressive.
What do you dislike about the product?
On occasion, the system can be too flexible and permissive making it challenging to implement best data governance practices. The inventory and requests modules are not as advanced as other Benchling applications. It may not be the best solution for highly structured, high volume data out of the box. Permissions on specific items are restricted to the project level, making project architecture complex and unintuitive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Benchling is the corporate system of record for all research data and materials. ELN entries are the single source of company IP. We have implemented Benchling early to avoid any paper records within the research organization.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is a highly versatile, reliable, and growing platform with a lot of potential. It will grow with your companys' needs. It may not be the best solution for highly structured, high volume data out of the box.
Great R&D cloud LIMS for start-ups
What do you like best about the product?
The registry system is quite easy to configure and maintain. It takes some of the pain out of schema migrations and all the Dev/Ops issues to maintain a database of your own for certain application stacks. If you use the registry as your primary data store, all the entities can be referenced in the notebook ELN tool. Customer service is excellent (they are highly responsive when issues arise and they always let you know whether something is possible or not to fix). The API can be used to hack together powerful synthetic biology workflows (far beyond what is achievable with the UI alone). For the most part, the documentation is excellent and the API is getting more performant over time.
What do you dislike about the product?
This software is a little pricey and so we have to be selective about which users can have access. The other thing is I wish it was easier to have a STAGE and PROD instance where the schemas, data, permissions, etc. are mirrored more regularly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are building a synthetic biology R&D pipeline (especially on the DESIGN/BUILD side) using Benchling.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Take it slow during the onboarding process. You should expect to really invest some quality time to train your team members.
Excellent all-in-one solution for biotech
What do you like best about the product?
Benchling makes it really easy to share data between team members and across teams in a uniform format. The integration of molecular biology tools with the notebook and the ability to link samples and look at everywhere across Benchling where a particular sample has been mentioned is extremely powerful. Benchling's customer support is always helpful and they are continuously making improvements and rolling out new features.
What do you dislike about the product?
Making changes to the data structure after it has been established is sometimes difficult. It would be nice if there was more flexibility in the types of linkages between different samples.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Benchling helps us track sample provenance and manage a complex web of data.
Benchling is the most intuitive scientific platform for users
What do you like best about the product?
Intuitive interface
Well documented API and warehouse
Easily configurable
Well documented API and warehouse
Easily configurable
What do you dislike about the product?
The tool being so flexible, it's easy to over-engineer schemas and workflows.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data collection for scientific work
Workflows in the lab, standardizing processes, centralization of data, sample management
Workflows in the lab, standardizing processes, centralization of data, sample management
Highly configurable ELN/LIMS solution
What do you like best about the product?
The system is so highly configurable it makes it very easy to fulfill the requirements of the business and end-users. We started using Benchling when they were a company of about 20 or so employees (like us at the time) and have helped them improve the platform and add additional modules. We have leveraged all of them as they all provide the functionality that we need as a business. The intuitive UI has helped with adoption vastly. We migrated from another ELN, a paper on glass solution, that was not searchable, reportable, or scalable; Benchling meets and exceeds all of these.
What do you dislike about the product?
They are deprecating some features like the workflows and batch schema that I have spent extensive time configuring for use. The large task of migrating over will require a whole day's stop of work and brute force effort to migrate to the new modules. I would much rather have liked to migrate without having to do each separately. It would also be more useful if the automation support were more aligned with the customer success support or implementation support instead of just as a support service. Companies like ours that lack an automation team, or a DevOps team at all, really can't utilize this service unless they (benchling) could more actively take a role in leading an automation project. i.e., determine the best system to automate, work to gather requirements and deliverables etc.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have streamlined the data capture within our culture process. Our process requires that service teams generate material for other groups, and they report on the phenotype and activity of the cellular material throughout the process, allowing us to determine whether to proceed with material generation and delivery or to stop. The ability to use workflows with stages makes those checkpoints more visible and manageable increasing throughput. The structured requesting module has also provided metrics to report on the workload and material generation for management to review.
Benchling client from the beginning - 5+ years
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use, intuitive GUI, Bioregistry that is geared towards DNA based constructs, warehouse access that collects data behind the scenes, roadmap includes features that are pertinent to me, excellent support, all of my CSAs have been top notch
What do you dislike about the product?
Lack of GxP support at this time, built in analytics tool requires SQL knowledge
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Bioregistry - registration of unique biological constructs
Electronic Lab Notebook - record all experiments and results
Requests - configure flexible requests and track progress of requests. Results are associated with requests
Warehouse - with results from ELN being moved to the warehouse, create live dashboards
Sample management - configure locations of freezers, liquid nitrogen tanks etc, with barcoding. Inventory management of samples and reagents
Electronic Lab Notebook - record all experiments and results
Requests - configure flexible requests and track progress of requests. Results are associated with requests
Warehouse - with results from ELN being moved to the warehouse, create live dashboards
Sample management - configure locations of freezers, liquid nitrogen tanks etc, with barcoding. Inventory management of samples and reagents
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Involve your CSA at the outset and follow best practices. For ELN, set up templates and structured data tables to systematically capture results. If you do not have an in house modeler, use Benchling professional services.
Feature rich ELN
What do you like best about the product?
Benchling starts as an ELN, but is also packed with features to make data management and experiments easier. It incorporates a registry, inventory system, molecular biology tools, and analytics all integrated into a single product.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish I could double-click a column in a table to resize it to fit. In all seriousness, I wish I had the time to explore and take advantage of all the features Benchling includes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Benchling allows us to integrate multiple solutions into a single place, which means we can link and reference test articles with a direct connection to the registry.
Joining the Benchling environment was a great and seamless experience!
What do you like best about the product?
The Benchling environment, the team and their approach to training new users. Benchling made the onboarding process fast, customized and seamless for our company. Being a biotechnology startup we look forward to using Benchling and benefiting from their platform tools.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing to add here. The entire experience was seamless
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
ELN, team collaboration, data analysis, MolBio tools
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Go ahead and schedule a demo and a trial period. Their platform is a great way to keep teams ELNs organized and benefit from their multiple platform tools. A one-stop suite of options for any R&D team.
Benchling review
What do you like best about the product?
Almost all the molecular biology information I need is in one location. It also updates when other people make changes.
What do you dislike about the product?
Does not give percent identity for DNA alignment. It cannot handle large data inputs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have used Benchling to store data from multiple scientists and update it in real time.
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