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Easy to use
Lots of add on
Great support team Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
can't have tables >500 rows
Sometimes work arounds are required - e.g. with containers. This can be tricky
Easier way to add COSHH and RA Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
it's expandability to into other type of work within bio-investigative work Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
learning curve is steep but worth it once you realize all its capable of doing for a team Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Its low learning curve and traceability of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I don't like how it doesn't allow for easier use of mixture prep and recipes. That system needs to be overhauled. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Benchling has improved our cross-functional team collaboration, improving out overall R&D pipeline Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There's a lot of data entry and it's a steep learning curve initially. There also aren't many specific applications for product development (financial forecasting, or support with integrating into other software). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The registry system is quite easy to configure and maintain. It takes some of the pain out of schema migrations and all the Dev/Ops issues to maintain a database of your own for certain application stacks. If you use the registry as your primary data store, all the entities can be referenced in the notebook ELN tool. Customer service is excellent (they are highly responsive when issues arise and they always let you know whether something is possible or not to fix). The API can be used to hack together powerful synthetic biology workflows (far beyond what is achievable with the UI alone). For the most part, the documentation is excellent and the API is getting more performant over time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
This software is a little pricey and so we have to be selective about which users can have access. The other thing is I wish it was easier to have a STAGE and PROD instance where the schemas, data, permissions, etc. are mirrored more regularly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
No way to hide the cloning wizards from my undergrads :P Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Benchling is a modern cloud architecture and interface, as well as a continuously developing set of rich features around biologics workflows.
The ELN is extremely flexible and interacts nicely with the bioregistry and inventory applications. We have successfully implimented Benchling's ELN and bioregistry across highly diverse teams and workflows, including NGS, pathology, in-vivo pharmacology, and cell engineering. Together with the more recent feature around regulated workflows, Benchling can comfortably accommodate research from early discovery to drug development, completely ad-hoc data entry to structured sample and result registration.
Benchling's support, attention and responsiveness to user feedback has also been impressive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
On occasion, the system can be too flexible and permissive making it challenging to implement best data governance practices. The inventory and requests modules are not as advanced as other Benchling applications. It may not be the best solution for highly structured, high volume data out of the box. Permissions on specific items are restricted to the project level, making project architecture complex and unintuitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Ease of use, intuitive GUI, Bioregistry that is geared towards DNA based constructs, warehouse access that collects data behind the scenes, roadmap includes features that are pertinent to me, excellent support, all of my CSAs have been top notch Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Lack of GxP support at this time, built in analytics tool requires SQL knowledge Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
