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User friendly, great way to collaborate and keep track of lab work
What do you like best about the product?
Benchling is constantly improving to cater to our labs needs, is user friendly, and easy to collaborate. It is catered exactly to what we need to use to make keeping track of data easy and integrated into our systems.
What do you dislike about the product?
The folder organization is inconvenient (the way the notebook and inventory are organized), but that is due in part to the way our lab set up the projects.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is easy to keep track of plates, especially in high throughput, and stay organized with large numbers of samples.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Consider the functionality that you need for your lab and its size.
Benchling generally easy to use, has some UX quirks that can be difficult to work with
What do you like best about the product?
Generally friendly, easy to keep inventory and entries organized.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some inventory things cache slowly, sometimes difficult to figure things out for new users. As features change, the experience changes which can be confusing, especially with inventory related fields.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Lab work storage. Generally easy & efficient, especially with templates
Using Benchling to design and record my daily work
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best about Benchling is having one place to do everything. The Registry feature gives me quick access to all of the oligo and constructs that have been made by the group. Design and construction of plasmids is easy and as registries and feature libraries are added to labeling becomes a breeze. Another thing that I really like is the ELN feature where I can keep track of what I do day to day and set up individual notebook entries to follow the different work streams that I have.
What do you dislike about the product?
My biggest issue is that with the ELN is that you can only have people sign off on completed ELN notebooks that have full paid Benchling accounts.. this is an issue because in our company not everyone uses Benchling but legally I need someone from outside of my group to verify the work. When we initially were talking with Benchling it didn't seem like that was going to be the case.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With using Benchling we are solving issues with Nomenclature of features. One benefit that I have realized is that with the search function I can check for oligos before just designing new ones. This saves us from duplicating things we already have.
The best web app I know for editing genetic constructs
What do you like best about the product?
The sequence editor and annotator, with support for shared feature libraries
What do you dislike about the product?
The poor support for implementing external analysis pipelines
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Construction of synthetic DNA sequences. The main benefit is that notebooks can contain link to sequences or other entities (batches, bacterial strains etc).
Efficiently condenses information
What do you like best about the product?
Everyone can see each others' entries, making it easy to share data/protocols. There are data tables that can be linked to specific entities, so if you need to know all data associated with a protein, you can find it in one location.
What do you dislike about the product?
It can be challenging to figure out how Benchling "likes" to receive information. If a field is rejected or if a table entry fails validation, it takes some clicking to understand how to fix it. Benchling also links to Protocols in a non-intuitive way, although my problem could probably be solved by creating an entry template and copying a protocol into the template to be filled out each time it is performed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The storage module is extremely useful. We can keep inventory and make sure we do not run out of protein. It is also useful for sample management. If we could combine Benchling with a scanner/barcode system, it would be a more powerful tool.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Benchling is a more coherent information management system than Excel. We previously organized information using Excel sheets on a shared server, and version control is horrendous. Just be sure to train everyone and mandate that everyone uses Benchling, or else it is not useful because the people who are good at updating information are hurt by others not using the tool!
Benchling is a Great Combination LIMS/ELN
What do you like best about the product?
I find the electronic lab notebook (ELN) is very deep-featured and well-connected to the built-in LIMS system. The interconnected tracking between entries is very helpful as is the personnel tagging. We are a small (6 person) lab and find that the majority of the features are well-suited to us. Additionally, new features are always coming out and the customer support team is very responsive.
What do you dislike about the product?
The inventory tracking and storage feature is not as clean/simple as the rest of the program, making it cumbersome to move vials virtually between containers. Also, the molecular bio suite could use better bulk extraction/exporting features in the DNA suite.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our lab requires Benchling to track our expression plasmids, batches of in-house produced IgGs, and small molecule drugs. The ELN also allows us to work collaboratively on projects and ensures that each member of the team has access to all experimental results and planning.
Benchling aids in experimental design
What do you like best about the product?
Benchling helps in storing all the data in one central location and how you can design Benchling to fit your needs.
What do you dislike about the product?
Benchling currently does not have visual capabilities.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Benchling increases efficiency in experimental design. Everyone has access to everything, and the information is stored in a central location.
Benchling works great!
What do you like best about the product?
I really like how benchling has the linking features- you can easily refer back to previous related experiments or link the protein complexes you have used in your experiments.
What do you dislike about the product?
This is a minor issue, but when you want to link to previous experiments you have to type "@experiment title" and it links the entire title. I wish there was an option to just link the experiment number rather than the entire title of the experiment.
Other than that, I don't have any complaints. It works great!
Other than that, I don't have any complaints. It works great!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Benchling enables us to keep track of experiments across multiple lab members. It is incredibly helpful when switching projects- no longer do you have to try and dig through old hard-copies of lab notebooks to see what the previous person working on the project had done. Instead you have an awesome search function and don't have to worry about not being able to read their handwriting.
Great tool!
What do you like best about the product?
Benchling is very easy to use. Tools in it are straightforward.
What do you dislike about the product?
Benchling Insights tool can contain more filters for data visualization.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Everyday lab notebook management.
Intuitive, Fast, Effective
What do you like best about the product?
Benchling has been quite intuitive for me to pick up; as an academic, the user interface is light-years ahead of other free-for-academic software (e.g. APE only lets you look at one strand at a time, and is clunky for identifying restriction sites). Being able to rapidly import other sequences from online databases and keep things in the cloud also make sharing constructs so much faster!
What do you dislike about the product?
No way to hide the cloning wizards from my undergrads :P
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Generating libraries of protein constructs to assay against fluorescent biosensors (or other reporter strains).
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