Benchling R&D Cloud
Accelerating the Pace of Life Sciences R&D.
Executive Summary
Benchling R&D Cloud is a cloud-based informatics platform designed for life sciences research and development, integrating functionalities of Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELN) and Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS). It empowers scientists and R&D teams to manage workflows, centralize data, and foster collaboration, thereby accelerating discovery and development. The platform's key value lies in standardizing and connecting R&D data across the entire lifecycle, enabling faster, data-driven decision-making for academic, startup, and enterprise R&D labs.
Use Cases
- Experiment Design and Documentation: Standardize experimental procedures, capture results, and ensure documentation completeness and compliance.
- Sample and Reagent Management: Track the location, utilization, and full lineage of every biological sample and chemical reagent.
- Workflow Orchestration: Drive R&D efficiency by managing and orchestrating complex, multi-team scientific processes.
- Data Capture, Analysis, and Reporting: Centralize, standardize, and analyze diverse R&D data from experiments and instruments to generate actionable insights and reports.
- Regulatory Filing Preparation: Streamline the assembly of comprehensive data packages required for regulatory submissions.
- Molecular Biology Design and Analysis: Accelerate DNA and amino acid sequence design, analysis, and annotation for various research modalities.
Features
Visibility
- Configurable Scientific Dashboards: Build and customize dashboards with real-time data to analyze experiment results, trace data lineage, and monitor R&D progress.
- System-Wide Search & Traceability: Easily find and share rich scientific data and metadata across the entire platform, ensuring full traceability of samples, sequences, and experiments.
- Real-time Process Visualization: Gain visibility into R&D workflows with real-time visualization of process status, helping to identify and resolve bottlenecks.
Intelligence
- AI-Driven Protocol Generation: Leverage AI integrations (e.g., Claude) to draft study protocols, standard operating procedures, and consent documents.
- Automated Analysis Workflows: Standardize and automate complex analysis workflows with templates, ensuring consistency and efficiency across experiments.
- Advanced Molecular Biology Design Tools: Access a suite of in silico tools for DNA and amino acid design, including Golden Gate and Gibson assembly, primer design, and antibody sequence annotation.
- Codeless Configuration: Rapidly adapt the system to evolving team and process needs by codelessly configuring notebook entry templates, entities, assay-specific data tables, and user permissions.
Support
- Comprehensive Help Center & Support Form: Access self-serve resources, FAQs, and direct support channels for quick resolution of queries.
- Benchling Learning Labs: Online educational platform offering courses and certifications to enhance user skills and platform proficiency.
- Customer Success Team & Advisory Services: Benefit from product support, implementation guidance, and strategic advisory services, with options for dedicated Customer Success Managers and faster response times through Premier Success Packages.
Technical Specifications
- Architecture
- Cloud-native SaaS, combining SaaS and PaaS elements
- Deployment
- Cloud/SaaS
- Authentication
- SSO, SAML 2.0, MFA
- API Available
- Yes
- MCP Server
- Yes
Infrastructure
- AWS
- Google Cloud
AI/ML Stack
- Machine Learning
- NLP
Integrations
- Laboratory Equipment
- Genomics Tools
- LIMS
Security & Compliance
Certifications: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 9001, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, Annex 11, GxP
Encryption: AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.2 or higher in transit
Pricing
- Model
- Per user/month, Tiered subscription, Custom enterprise
- Starting Price
- Contact sales
- Target Customer
- SMB to Enterprise, Academic
- Contract Type
- Annual, Multi-year discounts
- Free Trial
- Yes, 30 days (for trials), Custom demo (credit card required)
About Benchling
Benchling is a cloud-based platform for biotechnology research and development, offering a unified platform for scientific data, collaboration, and insights. It provides a suite of natively unified applications that accelerate R&D, enabling scientists to design, share, and record experiments, and manage DNA-sequence data in the cloud.