eLabNext vs Benchling: Which is a better fit?

Our end-users are very happy with the solution and we are receiving positive feedback. The team around Zareh is very knowledgeable about their product but also about the current market and trends.

Since we bought into it, the Journal is stuck in development or asks for additional money for features that should be integrated for molecular biology purposes.

Great customer support and service, this offers an appreciable and competitive value. This software is very good and taking in data, especially as a PDFs.

Frequent users will start to see issues with flexibility in correcting erroneous details of entries (not yet finalized), or setting up high-functioning templates for repeated experiments.

The collaboration is outstanding as any interaction is honest, transparent and direct. I would highly recommend to work with Zareh and his team.

Still no possibility to use a stylus to annotate gel pictures or write entries.

Likewise, the pricing was very competitive and the team at eLab has been very responsive and pleasant to work with.

When being used to paper-based experiments, the investment of time you need to digitalize your experiments in eLabJournal is really high. We miss some Project/Study/Experiment filtering tools.

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.

Stephanie S

Bartender

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.