The Registry system is an excellent tool for collecting characteristic data for sample lots, linking that information back to early discovery sequence data, and bringing that information into the ELN and Insights dashboards. We are getting a full view of individual sample lots and can also look at metrics in aggregate for pipeline QC. The Registry is very easy to configure and maintain.

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!

It allows to create entiries amd folder to store different experiments. It automatically generates ELN numbers and it also have location options where the box and samples would be stored for everyones reference therefore sample tracking is very easy.