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Can you believe it’s been two years since the Benchling Online Community launched? On August 15th, we celebrate our second birthday! Since day one, this space has grown into a vibrant hub where Benchling users ask questions, share insights, exchange ideas, and support one another. Whether you’ve been here from the start or just joined last week — we’re so glad you’re part of it.

šŸ’¬ By the Numbers: In just two years, you all have been busy!

  • šŸ“Œ 2,577 topics and replies
  • šŸ“† 47 community-driven events
  • šŸ‘„ 2192 Members
  • šŸ’” Countless insights, answers, and good vibes

🧸 To Celebrate, We're Hosting a Birthday Giveaway!
We want to hear from you: What’s one thing you’ve learned from the Benchling Community over the past two years?
Whether it’s a new Benchling feature, a productivity tip, or just knowing you’re not alone in a tough configuration — we want to know!

šŸ“ How to Enter
Reply to this post by August 15th with:

  1. A quick note about what you've learned in the Community

  2. A tag for at least one colleague from your company

  3. A profile photo (if you haven’t already added one!)

šŸŽ Prizes
Everyone who participates gets a party favor for joining inĀ the celebration:Ā a coveted JeffyP plushie! (Yes, he’s real. Yes, he’s adorable. Yes, you need one.)

Here’s to two years of connection, collaboration, and community power and many more to come! šŸ„‚

P.S. To any new visitors to our Community, you can make an account using your company email by navigating to the ā€œLog Inā€ buttonĀ 
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The Benchling Community was a huge resource I used a ton when we were first onboarding Benchling in my company. I directly linked a lot of the how-to articles in our internal work instructions document. I remember specifically diving through the Ideas forums and learning what Excel functions I can and cannot use in the entry tables, and that you can make references across different tables in the same entry.

Shout out to ​@will.gowenmacĀ who onboarded Benchling at my company.


Benching is a huge help in managing experiments and compounds! The community helped me in learning how to better use and implement these tools into our workflows!

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​@will.gowenmacĀ onboarded benchling onto our company and immensely improved workflows.


Happy birthday!!Ā šŸŽ‰ I hand-waved checking out the community for quite a while, thinking it would mostly be people screaming to the void about very Google-able issues, but I was pleasantly surprised to see a collaborative community with support from Benchling employees and users alike. Seeing such engagement from community managers and product managers/developers and having observability into the planned roadmap is a very nice breath of fresh air compared to other experiences I’ve had in the past.

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Keep up the good work! Shoutout to my executive assistant and peer programming partner. Without him my backspace key would not be as worn out.

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Happy Birthday Benchling!Ā šŸŽ‰I’m pretty new to the community yet I already am liking how versatile it gets in storing data, registering entries and looking up information. Thanks ​@LauraTRondoTXĀ for introducing me to the Benchling!Ā šŸ¤—


Hello! I am new the community and while browsing around I found that the forums provided greatĀ tips and tricks forĀ notebook entries. The forum is also great for giving visibility toĀ user issues.

Thank you ​@Danielle SchampĀ for introducing me to the Benchling Community!


I’m new to the community but looking around, I’ve realized there are far more Benchling features than I was aware of. Currently looking into App Canvas…

Thanks ​@katharinaĀ for letting me know about the benchling community!


Woohoo, it was my birthday this week too! šŸŽ‰

I’m still mostly a lurker here, but I’m starting to dig around more and have discovered so many links to virtual bootcamps and the like that I missed being able to watch in real time. They are FANTASTIC!Ā 

My newest colleague ​@ramyasindhyanĀ is new to Benchling and will benefit from these, as well.

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Happy Brithday, Benchling community! šŸŽˆ


Hi! I have learned helpful tricks about using the benchling sequence viewer from the community, specifically saving alignments in benchling!

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Thanks ​@poojavikramanĀ for being a great lab friend and fellow benchling user!

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