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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing to add here. The entire experience was seamless Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

That Benchling is trying hard to tackle the very difficult problem of coming up with a good electronic lab notebook. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

very adaptable to the individual when something doesn't work Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

navigation when first using it takes a while to learn is doing it by yourself Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.