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No more paper labnotebooks
What do you like best about the product?
That is online, I can access it and write notes and paste results easily,
Benchling is greatfor almost all mol bio applications I can imagine
Benchling is greatfor almost all mol bio applications I can imagine
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't like the error messages they stack on the screen and the fact that I cant check my calendar or pending actions on my phone
The connection between the notes and the catalog of plasmids is not seamless, maybe adding links to my plasmids will make it easier(like html links)
The connection between the notes and the catalog of plasmids is not seamless, maybe adding links to my plasmids will make it easier(like html links)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Confirming sequences (sanger to plasmids) is trivial, fast and we can store the data easily
storing and recording data is easy
storing and recording data is easy
very easy to use and the customer serves team is always ready to help!
What do you like best about the product?
very adaptable to the individual when something doesn't work
What do you dislike about the product?
navigation when first using it takes a while to learn is doing it by yourself
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This website solved an inventory problem, long with a notetaking problem.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Please take the time to really sit down and learn all that Benchling has to offer. Doing soo will greatly improve the overall use of the site!
User friendly
What do you like best about the product?
User friendly interface molecular cloning
What do you dislike about the product?
It wasn’t that easy to Insert other document links
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
ELN
Overall pretty good, but not user friendly to cell culture.
What do you like best about the product?
That Benchling is trying hard to tackle the very difficult problem of coming up with a good electronic lab notebook.
What do you dislike about the product?
Plate to plate transfer tables are cumbersome, painful and take longer than the actual cell culture work. Should be a "drag and drop" feature, well to plate for example and increment passage...
Difficult to distinguish titles in tabs for multiple experiments
Often slow, long waits for pages to load, especially large pages
Simple things like re-printing a barcodes are either incomplete in development or hidden within an edit field
Search is painful, usually hard to find things if you don't know the exact title
Errors are explained in data engineereese
Webpages are not simplified visually
More resources should be funneled into the cell culture side of their software, working directly with people in the field.
Difficult to distinguish titles in tabs for multiple experiments
Often slow, long waits for pages to load, especially large pages
Simple things like re-printing a barcodes are either incomplete in development or hidden within an edit field
Search is painful, usually hard to find things if you don't know the exact title
Errors are explained in data engineereese
Webpages are not simplified visually
More resources should be funneled into the cell culture side of their software, working directly with people in the field.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Good traceability. Some functions can save a lot of time.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Seems like the only game in town, but they are always improving.
efficient
What do you like best about the product?
organized and able to get information fast
What do you dislike about the product?
it only lets export 25 entities at a time
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps keep all of our data in one place.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
we still can't print and also still don't have an inventory set up
NEED A LOT MORE DEVELOPMENT
What do you like best about the product?
I like that it has ARCHIVES, history, cloud-based
What do you dislike about the product?
registration tables, transgfer tables, lack of structure (it is a plane white sheet with limited text editing capacity), the storage system is too complicated for something that is designed for research lab not for GMP! it is not flexible enough
I hate all the tables... the way they look like and structured
I hate all the tables... the way they look like and structured
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
easily accessible from multiple laptops in the lab,
Benchling makes notebook entries easy and efficient
What do you like best about the product?
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 about the product?
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).
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 is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
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.
A User-centric electronic laboratory notebook system, and more
What do you like best about the product?
Benchling is one of the most flexible electronic lab notebook systems. It gives to users free writing capability as much as a paper-based notebook, while gives to admin solid integrity of records. It could also eliminate use of Excel file for a type of labnote book.
Benchling allows the best traceability of record because it handles data and file as an 'entities' not just an unorganized characters.
Therefore, while we write the ELN and capture the data, they are being organized for future.
Benchling allows the best traceability of record because it handles data and file as an 'entities' not just an unorganized characters.
Therefore, while we write the ELN and capture the data, they are being organized for future.
What do you dislike about the product?
I hope Benchling will offer a more affordable price and price structure for a small start-up company.
Their modules for the industry are hard to test-drive. It must be better if they operate a sandbox server for demonstration purposes to give a more clear idea of how the Benchling system works.
Their modules for the industry are hard to test-drive. It must be better if they operate a sandbox server for demonstration purposes to give a more clear idea of how the Benchling system works.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our scientists were writing their lab record in Excel files, but we also had to maintain paper-based lab notebook for recording purpose because an excel file could not give record integrity. Becuase of the situation, there were a tedious boring job of printing excel file and gluing them on the labnotebook. The physical notebook takes room for storage and requires additional management effort.
By transition to ELN, all problems above have gone.
Users were willing to use ELN because they easily transit from excel to ELN.
By transition to ELN, all problems above have gone.
Users were willing to use ELN because they easily transit from excel to ELN.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you want an easy transition and off-premise, zero-maintenance system, and excel replacement, Benchling is the solution you want.
But it is only for biology, not for chemistry.
But it is only for biology, not for chemistry.
its an okay service
What do you like best about the product?
I can take notes in it, but that's honestly the most robust part of the platform.
What do you dislike about the product?
The Sanger sequencing alignment algorithms are trash
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The global energy crisis
Great software for linking protocols, lab write-ups and registered sequences
What do you like best about the product?
The linking function for entries/entities which enables us to sequences of candidate molecules, cell lines for experiments, lab protocols, notebook entries etc. with ease. Also the timestamp function is very good to recover things is part of the entry was accidently overwritten and you need to go back and the ability to add people to edit your entry if they did part of an experiment without them needing to make a new entry is good.
What do you dislike about the product?
Autofilling a whole row/column of a table would be useful so if you had your target cells in an assay plated in different columns of a 96 well plate and then you have your effector cells plated as different rows then it would be good to autofill each of these to enable efficient entry of these plating schemes. This would also be good for different concentrations of candidate molecules as well for example. The ability to enter multiple pieces of information efficiently into a 96 well plate without having to type each combination separately when you only have a few conditions in different combinations would be great. Also it would be good to have an alert system that a review has been open so long and requires closure soon and this to be set according to the company guidelines
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Traceability of lab work across teams in matrix environment. It houses the locations of our cell lines, donor information for human PBMCs etc. Sequencing information for our candidates for testing. This integration provides visibility to all aspects of the organisation.
Molecular biology add-on is powerful and allows for bulk uploading of sequences..
Molecular biology add-on is powerful and allows for bulk uploading of sequences..
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Consider if you have many different things that you need to trace because this will integrate them all together very well
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