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Jennifer
Verified reviewer
Higher Education, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed November 2019
Lab friendly online notebook and so much more
Having all the laboratory notes online in an issue to use format allows for quick sharing of protocols and real-time collaboration on the same projects.
PROSBenchling is easy to use, great for everyday notes and protocol design. It makes sharing experimental details and lab notes simple. In addition, easy to search for keywords throughout all the notebooks, never lose data or key pieces of information again. The molecular biology suite is the best, easy cloning and sequences alignments.
CONSWould love to have access to sample repository and tracking but need the paid version. Better integration with storage options for big data.
Jessica
Research, 10,000+ employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2021
Wonderful digital lab notebook
Overall, Benchling has been wonderful for switching from an archaic experiment documentation system to a well organized, collaborate online system.
PROSBenchling is a very useful tool for organizing and collaborating on scientific data online. Online notebooks make it very easy to record and find previous data, which you will always have to cross reference much later after your experiment. The different folders and entries are very easy to organize, and you can create shared collaborative documents as well as your own private notebooks.
CONSOne small Con is that adding figures/images to the entries takes up a lot of space in the notebook, since text and other images/tables/figures cannot wrap around each other. This means that if you're including many images, your entry will be very long, and you can't include too many images together.
Stephanie
Biotechnology, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed November 2019
Benchling Implementation at Tenaya
Overall, Benchling has hugely helped our company to come together to decide what the important pieces of our work are that we need to capture, and how to efficiently pass information off team to team. The implementation team has been incredibly helpful in the process.
PROSI am thrilled to be able to easily tailor the software to the individual needs of scientists as everyone plays incredibly different roles, but we all come together to look at the data as a whole to make large company decisions. We have not been using the software as an entire company just yet, but we have liked the implementation process with Benchling's support to create the platform our company needs to be successful.
CONSOne of the challenges we have found as we've begun to use Benchling more is that there are some features we've gotten used to using and rely on, but then they will disappear. We understand Benchling is constantly changing and tweaking to better help R&D, but some changes come out of nowhere and mess some of our plans up. Most changes are minor here or there, but when needing to count on a software for easier day-to-day use you need the simple things to work.
Suomia
Hospital & Health Care, 2-10 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2020
Ease of Use
Over all, I honestly love benchling. Its so useful when it comes to cloning and helps visualize the plasmids so easily for me, and students that I teach. I love how I can edit and work on my projects easily, and there is so much easy ways to edits and write notes for reference. I will continue to use benchling in the future b/c i love it so much!
PROSBecause I work with plasmids, the primer creation and alignment tool are my favorite parts of Benchling. I often need to create primers to double check my plasmid is correct and they have been so easy to make! Especially since benchling remembers the primers that I make, and logs them in by name and location on the plasmid for future reference. The alignment tool has also saved me alot of time when it comes to double checking my plasmid size and inserts.
CONSWhile i get the location and placement of the Projects tab, that has been a frequent headache to me. It brings up issues when projects are shared by other people in the lab and they only allow me to just see the project and not edit it. I feel like there should be a tool where we can take a project someone shares with us, and edit it and save it easily to our own files. Constantly copying and pasting plasmids from one location to another gets annoying after the 30th plasmid.
Megan
Research, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed January 2022
Our lab loves this website
Overall I'd highly recommend this for any academic lab planning to use an ELN.
PROSThis is a great way to have a collaborative electronic lab notebook among a lab. Easy to share protocols and lab notes, and it's also easy to update the notebook by date and topic. Overall it will be hard to go back to a printed lab notebook after using Benchling. I also like the sequence feature, I refuse to use anything else (ex. Geneious, ApE) for sequence analysis.
CONSSometimes it can be slow, especially when uploading files to the notebook pages. Also, it would be nice to have photos in a grid form rather than one per line in the notebook. It can make the entries lengthy if there are so many pictures (ex. plate pictures).
Thomas
Pharmaceuticals, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2021
The best molecular biology software I ever used in 10years+ of research
I use it almost everyday when I have cloning to do or protein analysis and I love it. I used a lot of different software in the past and this one is the best by far.
PROSIt is great to use, super easy to go from DNA to protein. Easy to visualize everything and to align sequences. I just can't do without anymore.
CONSI would like the restriction enzyme sites to be better highlighted on the sequence sometime, but it is really minor.
Reasons for switching to Benchling
Because it is the best free software available
Zachary
Higher Education, 2-10 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2020
Intuitive, Effective, Impactful
Benchling lets me organize all of my cloning projects and plasmid maps easily and rapidly. It has been an essential tool to both my graduate and post-graduate careers as an academic.
CONSAs an educator, I work with a number of undergrads training them to clone. The one major problem I've had with Benchling is how easy the cloning wizards make designing constructs. Students come to me with the right primers and right strategy, but when pressed often admit to using the cloning wizard to come to the answer -- not the best moments for me as an educator when I want to challenge them, but certainly a testament to how easy (and powerful!) the software package is!
Reasons for switching to Benchling
Benchling is significantly cheaper and also easier to use.
Anonymous
11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2020
Benchling is a nice tool for molecular biology
I have been using Benchling for a few years and I am always happy with it. It has been continuously improving and they really care about the needs of their users.
PROSThe user interface is very intuitive and friendly. The functions are very powerful. It is a very nice replacement of many expensive commercial softwares.
CONSSome functions are limited to company users.
Aurore-Cecile
Research, 201-500 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed June 2021
Essential tool for Molecular Biology projects
This tool is a must have when doinv molecular biology to get organized, save sequncing result and share projects. Much more easy to use than many other softwares.
PROSEasy to visualize nuckeotude sequence and translation in amino acid. Possibility to save protein sequence as well. Wonderfyl tool for seqyence alignment and anylyze sequancing results. Essential tool for lab database and sharing map.
CONSThe only thing I don't like is the restriction enzyme tool. I found this tool and the management list not easy to use.
Janelle
Biotechnology, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed November 2023
Functional and Customizable
How customizable all features are for your specific process and how willing and available customer support is to help.
CONSIt is not intuitive for first time users and takes some practice to learn all the features.
Shabnam
Research, 2-10 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2020
Benchling Review - Satisfactory
Overall, I have been very pleased with Benchling, and it has made cloning and sequencing alignment so much easier. I have recommended this software to my colleagues since it has been very helpful for my cloning work.
PROSI found Benchling to be very user-friendly, and easy to upload sequences. Additionally, I am able to keep my sequences and primers very organized by putting detailed descriptions/sections. Also, the assembly tools make cloning more clear and less room for error. Also, if I had any questions, the customer service providers were always helpful and accessible.
CONSThus far, I have not found any missing features or any areas of improvement.
Guofeng
Biotechnology, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed March 2020
Michael lin lab ASAP team
User friendly and productive.
PROSI can easily use sharing folder to share the maps to my labmates.
CONSIt's complicated to delete a file and inconvienent to undo my modification on my maps if i mistakenly delete or revised my sequence.
Reasons for switching to Benchling
Benchling is free.
Douglas
Biotechnology, 10,000+ employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed December 2021
Best software for DNA sequences analysis
Its interface is really friendly, it is easy to use, and has lots of analysis options for DNA sequences.
CONSWhen you open a saved sequence, the tab does not closes automatically, leaving many tabs open.
Saba
Biotechnology, 10,000+ employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2022
Cheap and Best R&D Cloud platform for start-ups /labs
I am very satisfied and recommend to new labs or established lab to keep you data secure an trackable.
PROSInventory building is very useful in this software.
CONSSometimes, copying data or exporting data from benchhling to external folders are difficult
Reason for choosing Benchling
I am very confidents using benchling and its easy, simple an meet the requirements.
Wyatt
Higher Education, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2020
Great tool for molecular biology
Benchling has allowed us to maintain lab records and find old plasmids with ease. It satisfies all of our molecular biology organization needs.
PROSMakes organizing all of our lab plasmids incredibly easily. Simplifies sequencing and allows me to easily look at sequences at a glance.
CONSI don't understand why I can't just delete sequences without having to archive them first.
Bryan
Research, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2020
BENCHLINGTASTIC!
Great interface to use!
PROSBenchling makes it easier to keep track of my experiments and stay organized with DNA templates, plasmids, etc.
CONSSometimes hard to manipulate trash/archived files
Sefanne
Research, 11-50 employees
Used monthly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2023
Perfect for designing, storing and sharing sequences
Easy to use. Perfect for importing/exporting, modifying and analyzing DNA sequences. It's an essential tool for us when doing any cloning work and it visualizes everything nicely.
CONSSome functionalities take a little bit of figuring out but overall it's easy to use. Once you know some of the tips and tricks it's quick and instinctive to use
Kristine
Research, 501-1,000 employees
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2020
Great ELN and sequencing software
Very easy to use, integrates with other software
CONSIt took a little time to get used to it but once I did it was great. No complaints
Meghan
Biotechnology, 501-1,000 employees
Used monthly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2020
Great Product
I think Benchling is easy to use and visually appealing. Great product!
CONSThe product met all of my needs. So, there was nothing I disliked about it.
Amina
Research, 2-10 employees
Used less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2020
Great Software!
There are so many things that can be done and at no cost! This software is user-friendly and easy to work with.
CONSSo far I have not experienced any troubles with this software.