Skip to main content

- - Learn
Events
Groups
Help Center
Swag Store

Welcome to the Community!

New to the online community?

Jump in here to get started

Join the conversation

Got questions? Ask your peers

Share product ideas

Inspire us with your wishlist

508 Topics
2,090 Replies
2,205 Members

Featured topics

Recent activity
Help others

Melissa DiTucciCommunity Moderator

General announcements 📣

🎉 The Benchling Community Turns 2 + Celebratory JeffyP Plushie Giveaway

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.💬 By the Numbers: In just two years, you all have been busy!📌 2,577 topics and replies 📆 47 community-driven events 👥 2192 Members 💡 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!📝 How to EnterReply to this post by August 15th with: A quick note about what you've learned in the Community A tag for at least one collea

keithBenchling Employee

General announcements 📣

Updated Warehouse Docs now live!

Hi folks! I'm Keith and I'm part of the Technical Solutions Architecture (TSA) team at Benchling. We help our customers to build integrations on top of Benchling using the Developer Platform (Warehouse, API, events, SDK).We've been working on updating our Warehouse docs, and I'm pleased to share that these updates are now live on docs.benchling.com.The two old pages ("Warehouse Tables" and "Warehouse Table Columns") are now replaced by a single Warehouse Tables homepage, with subpages beneath that for different groups of tables (Workflows, Molecular Biology, Notebook etc). This should hopefully make it easier to find the information you're looking for! If you have any bookmarks saved that point to the old pages, we would recommend updating these to the new pages.Happy querying!

Melissa DiTucciCommunity Moderator

Feature Deep Dives

Testing the AI Data Entry Assistant

Benchling has been investing in a growing suite of AI tools designed to help scientists work more efficiently by reducing time spent on routine, manual tasks. These tools hold real promise — but as anyone who manages change in scientific workflows knows, turning potential into actual productivity takes thoughtful rollout and hands-on testing.This guide will walk you through how to test Benchling’s AI Data Entry Assistant using real-world use cases in a safe environment.Let’s first start with an explanation of what the AI Data Entry Assistant is and what it does. This tool uses artificial intelligence to import unstructured data from various file types into your Benchling structured tables. When enabled, this tool is supported on result tables, registration tables, and create/fill containers tables within the Notebook. Open Data entry assistant from the + button in your structured table, or from the AI tools button in the entry toolbar. These are the two entry points for leveraging this

ankita_dharBenchling Employee

Feature Deep Dives

Sample Container History

The Benchling Compliance Controls Team is excited to introduce the Chain of Custody - Container History Report. This was released to standard tenants earlier this fall with the launch to Validated Cloud customers expected in January 2024! These reports provide comprehensive tracking for sample data and are Benchling’s key milestone on the way to offering Chain of Custody in the future. With Chain of Custody reporting, you can now:Improve traceability of sample containers Track the end-to-end lifecycle of a sample container from creation through use and archival. Verify sample integrity for audit purposes Identify errors in sample handling across users and container activity. Increase speed of data aggregation for reporting Minimize manual search and collation of sample container audit data from multiple sources. Ensure consistent reporting of sample container activity Standardize format of data exports across sample containers. The Container History Report allows tea

Melissa DiTucciCommunity Moderator

General announcements 📣

Community Comics

Hey folks! I wanted to share a piece of community art we created with the help of our design team, inspired by a real thread in our forums. ✨This particular thread stood out to me because of how many of you jumped in to share creative ways to streamline organizing racks within your inventories. What made it even more special was that the conversation naturally evolved into identifying a product gap—a lack of location hierarchy visualization—and ultimately led to a submitted Idea in our portal.Even though we didn’t land on a perfect workaround, it was still an incredibly valuable moment. You validated each other’s frustrations, collaborated on possible solutions, and sparked a product idea that could make life easier for so many admins and users. That's the magic of community right there.Just a little proud Community Manager moment 💙If there are other threads that give you that warm-and-fuzzy feeling and deserve the community comic treatment, drop them in the comments—I’d love to bring

john.vogtBenchling Employee

Feature Deep Dives

Introducing Fieldsets

Hi Benchling Community, the Schemas Team is excited to introduce Fieldsets! Fieldsets is a new data modeling concept that allows you to improve the way you model your science using schemas in Benchling. The tool is specifically designed to help you model rich and varied scientific data relationships in the Registry. Fieldsets define the common set of structural constraints that can be applied to one or more schemas, providing you with the ability to group a set of schemas with common schema fields by defining a common Category for the group. Before Fieldsets, you may have needed to create “wide” schemas with lots of optional fields to satisfy the needs of multiple teams that used them, or you may have needed to create “Any Entity” links so you had the option to link multiple schemas to a single entity field for lineage tracking. With Fieldsets, you can create a single Fieldset and apply it across multiple schemas and leverage our new Category links to specify the exact set of schemas t

ravenBenchling Employee

General announcements 📣

1000 row structured tables are now in limited availability

We’ve taken steps to improve the Notebook experience by increasing table limits and in doing this we have also been able to improve the table display, performance, navigation, and export functionality in the Notebook. Here’s a look at what’s new: Table limits are increasing from 500 rows to 1,000 rows Rows are added with an Add row button that has a numeric input field Tables have a fixed width and height to keep content structured and readable Table adjust to fit more data while staying easy to navigate, a scroll bar appears when tables exceed a certain height so you can browse without resizing, and you can scroll past tables smoothly without minimizing them Tables exceeding 500 rows will be exported as attached CSV files Large tables will be rendered as collapsed tables with the table name visible when you export an entry as a PDF The updates that are being introduced are currently in limited availability (LA), if you’d like to opt-in to using this feature while it is in LA, please

Melissa DiTucciCommunity Moderator

General announcements 📣

Image Annotation is HERE - Show off your artistic skills for a chance at a prize!

Joy to the world, this long-awaited feature request has been shipped! For any attached image in notebook entries or templates, you can now add annotations!Available annotations include text, arrows, and circles. Select the fill and outline color, drag and drop your shapes and text to add context to your images, and press save. In celebration, I invite you to show off your artistic skills. Share a screenshot of a work of art created using Benchling’s Image Annotation. I’ll review with my team and select our favorite my favorite and the lucky artist will be rewarded with a Benchling hoodie! 🎁

thomasxiongBenchling Employee

Benchling Best Practice Guides

Warehouse Connectivity Troubleshooting Guide

There are a variety of ways to connect to your Benchling Data Warehouse. But sometimes, connecting to your warehouse doesn’t go smoothly. If you experience issues connecting to your warehouse, this guide is for you. The goal of this guide is to: Provide some general guidelines on how to diagnose connection issues Provide a list of commonly encountered issues and suggested solutions Provide a space for community members to help each other solve warehouse connectivity issues! If you’re running into an issue yourself, chances are, other members of the community may have run into the same one. Note on Third Party ToolsPlease note that while we provide the Data Warehouse for use however you would like, Benchling does not provide guarantees on third party tools you may use to connect. Some tools include Power BI, Tableau, and ETLeap. If you are running into issues with these tools, we encourage you to first check out the documentation specific to that tool and then ask for help here from

Melissa DiTucciCommunity Moderator

General announcements 📣

🎄‘Tis the season to give thanks!🎄

This holiday season, I’m especially grateful for our incredible product team. Your dedication to the community makes this space dynamic, impactful, and truly special.Thank you for always being so responsive to my messages, indulging my wildest ideas, and serving as amazing advocates for the Benchling product. Your hard work and passion do not go unnoticed.✨No coal for any of you this year—just stockings full of gratitude and cheer!✨Happy holidays from the Benchling Online Community!@ShawnaWolverton @Kyle @salil @lilyhelfrich @madison.fletcher @Tori Ehrhardt @borisatbenchling @ankita_dhar @Chandler @Christian Arca @clare @Dane Pieri @ElisOl @Jesse Coffey @pilar_sterne @Judi Manley @maggie.sheldon @bioitnaris @nick.floeck @tina.arantes @rimas @James Pycock @derek

UX Research & Design

🔬 Want to participate in user experience research and design? 🎨

Fill out this form to be considered for user interviews and usability tests with our design team based on your role and experience.

Upcoming events

Most helpful this week

Show full leaderboard

Show full leaderboard

Still scrolling? Maybe this will help:

API documentation

Dive into our developer platform resources including API guides & SDK resources

Join our advocacy program

Learn about opportunities to elevate yourself as an industry thought leader

Contact support

Visit our Help Center for professional support & in-depth help content

Powered by Gainsight

Terms & Conditions Cookie settings

Note: If you are a Benchling customer, be sure to use your work email address. Much of the Benchling Community is only available to customers so this will ensure you receive full access to the platform.

Already have an account? Login

Benchling Employee? Login with SSO

Benchling Employee Login

or

Username *

E-mail address *

Company *

Job Title *

First Name *

Last Name

(Private)

Only you and moderators can see this information

*

Password *

I agree to the Terms and Conditions and the Privacy Policy

loginBox.register.email_repeat

Login to the community

No account yet? Create an account

Benchling Employee? Login with SSO

Benchling Employee Login

or

Username or Email

Password

Remember me

Forgot password?

Enter your E-mail address. We'll send you an e-mail with instructions to reset your password.

Enter your e-mail address

Back to overview

Scanning file for viruses.

Sorry, we're still checking this file's contents to make sure it's safe to download. Please try again in a few minutes.

OK

This file cannot be downloaded

Sorry, our virus scanner detected that this file isn't safe to download.

OK