Genemod’s inventory and data management platform is exemplary as it attempts to address two key areas that often confound even the most talented and organized scientists – 1. maintaining and accessing adequate inventory for carrying out a variety of experiments that form the backbone of any life science lab and 2. appropriately recording, archiving, and retrieving the protocols used for and data generated from such experiments. Cell lines, tissue samples and glycerol stocks should become easily accessible to all lab members as samples can be added and removed and appropriately noted in the freezer inventory function of this platform. Samples of a certain kind that are being stored at different temperatures such as -80°C, -20°C, 4°C and in the liquid nitrogen tank can be located easily without actually having to open any of these. The easy-to-recover inventory details should prove particularly useful during company audits. Moreover, they will allow lab members to ascertain whether sufficient reagent material is available for the planned experiments fairly quickly making time for the more important aspects of the experiment. In its fully developed form I envision the Genemod toolset being able to assist with everything from planning out experiments, drafting and editing protocols, locating reagents to recording and presenting data. Searching from past experiments and effectively communicating one’s science to colleagues should become easier upon beginning to use this platform. Remotely accessing one’s work should also be possible. Genemod also has a handy DNA manipulation tool which is very intuitive and user-friendly. One can toggle between two modes – editor and converter – while gathering important information about the DNA stretch of interest such as GC content, designing primers, determining Tm etc.

While working on my lab research, I was wondering if there was a way for me to parse my catalog and stock in a more efficient way so I could report to my mentor before running out of something important. GeneMod provided an intelligent and fast way for us to navigate through our reagents and even locating a particular sample inside the biofreezer without opening and even without having us to remember the exact reagent's name, as the system works with a search engine as efficient as Google or Amazon - of course, it depends on you to input the data first. The DNA sequencing analyzer is outstanding!

This platform has helped my lab completely reorganize the way we manage our antibodies. It completely streamlined the way we search and record which antibodies we've used and helped us ditch the old school method of Microsoft Excel. Being able to directly search for an antibody on a single platform (instead of multiple spreadsheets) across all the fridges cuts down significantly on the time I need to prepare my experiments, saving me time to focus on more important tasks. The virtual fridge visualization tool is also intuitive and enables our team to quickly see and organize our boxes across our fridges, making it easier for us to track certain antibodies and primers. Being able to see the realtime updates on activity and the activity log of our fridges is a nice feature as well. When signing up with Genemod, the team was also very friendly and supportive. They helped us migrate all our data onto the platform very quickly and effectively displayed the data to our needs. The platform is also easy to learn so training our other lab members took very little time as well.