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For research leaders in biotech, pharma, government, and academia, looking to ensure compliance, encourage collaboration, maintain quality assurance, and manage protocols, inventory, and data.
Scientists, research directors, IT managers and executives at biotech companies. Areas covered include antibodies, cell/gene therapies, proteins/peptides, vaccines, synthetic biology, and agritech.
The price was a deciding factor for us. We were surprised by the excellent support and good training that was included in the competitive rate.
I find that Tables tend to be difficult to work with and also the lack of user-friendly calendar integration frustrating.
The very useful training videos, how easy it is to set up a new experiment, and how nice and responsive the customer support team is.
It is sometimes difficult to get the steps ordered in the correct order for reports etc, especially if they were initially entered in the wrong order, or subsequently changed.
Our company really likes how online Microsoft Office is integrated if you have a business account. Also, we really appreciate the ability to save files and formulate reports.
There have been some necessary features that were incomplete or difficult to use.
The ability to be 21 CFR 11 compliant, easy of use, visibility, customizations, security, and permission levels. Customer service is fantastic and responsive.
To hard to use with phones, difficult to structure project. It's a chore to upload pictures/files.
I have been using Benchling for a few years and I am always happy with it. It has been continuously improving and they really care about the needs of their users.
Constantly copying and pasting plasmids from one location to another gets annoying after the 30th plasmid.
Over all, I honestly love benchling. Its so useful when it comes to cloning and helps visualize the plasmids so easily for me, and students that I teach.
Sometimes, copying data or exporting data from benchhling to external folders are difficult.
It is great to use, super easy to go from DNA to protein. Easy to visualize everything and to align sequences.
Sometimes hard to manipulate trash/archived files.
I love how I can edit and work on my projects easily, and there is so much easy ways to edits and write notes for reference. I will continue to use benchling in the future b/c i love it so much.
One of the challenges we have found as we've begun to use Benchling more is that there are some features we've gotten used to using and rely on, but then they will disappear.
Arpita: Hi everyone. I am Arpita. I am working as the Senior Scientist at a small size biotech startup company, and we are using SciNote to record our everyday lab activities and data record. And I will rate SciNote at four out of five. Before SciNote, we were using the conventional paper notebook and recording the data in Excel sheet and saving everything in a shared shared point. And it was not working well for us because everybody's lab notebook is different, stays in the lab, sometimes they take it home so there is possibility to get it lost. And also, it was very difficult to look for some data through the computers. And in the SciNote, we are not facing this problem. It is very user-friendly. It has this searchable option, so it's very easy to look for any data at any time. So that, we like a lot. So when we decided to switch to an electric notebook, so I was interviewing different companies and I found that SciNote actually solves our purpose best because as compared to other notebooks, other electronic notebooks, SciNote is much more user-friendly and they have a great customer care team. So we communicated with them very frequently, went to them with very simple and silly questions, and they answered all of our questions and helped us to become habituated with using an electric lab notebook. Pretty easy with the help of the customer care service and everything has initial learning curve. From my point of view, I will say the learning was very easy. It didn't require any prior knowledge or any prior experience of using an electric lab notebook. So I would say it was very easy. Any company should look for something that is very user-friendly. It should not be something intimidating that takes months of learning time and then come to implementation. And also, they can have this trial period and to find out if it actually serves their purpose. For example, from my point of view or my experience, I think SciNote will not serve well for bioinformatic related experiments or gene related experiments like comparing genome or comparing modeling type of work. But it works very well in conventional laboratory experiments such as you repeat the experiments three times, you present that data as a graph, and also record your regular activities. So yeah, that's my opinion.
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