Best Practice Guide: Results

If you’ve ever struggled to get value out of Results in Benchling or figure out when you should be using them in the first place, this is the resource for you! We’ve broken down the key components of Results, where they should be added, and gathered some resources on the tactical aspects of setting them up.

Our Results Best Practice Guide (or BPG) covers:

Benefits of Leveraging Results - Results will allow you to capture data in a structured and compliant way and can help you speed up analysis downstream
How Results affect your Registry - Results are associated with registered entities or containers
Best Practices: Using Results vs Registry - Results are best used for capturing multiple measurements after the time of entity registration
Best Practices for Results Against Containers - Capture results against containers when you’re working with unique storage conditions, plates, or other situations where container variability is important
Best Practices for Results in Templates - Prompt your scientists to capture results in a standardized way by adding a Result Table into a Template--you can even add directions on how to fill out the table properly
Growing with Results - Results are a tool that can grow with you as you mature – previewed below (see image 1) are our suggestions for how to use results as your operational maturity grows

Full BPG attached below!

And be sure to join the conversation to let us know how you’re using Results or where you might be struggling! 😃🙃

Looking for more best practices? You can keep skilling up on other Benchling modules by checking out our other Best Practice Guides on data modeling, templates and more.

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New topic for our Results BPG -- Required Fields. One of the CSMs asked if we could make a resource on this and we happily obliged 😊 Do you use required fields on your Results Schemas? Why or why not?

@Melissa DiTucci ,
I’d love to hear more about successful cases for version control of Benchling results, and creating team-based results, implementing tighter permissions around results. These are both topics of interest to Novozymes at this time. Could there be an expanded conversation and/or blog post with examples?

@Chantelle

Absolutely! I’ll put something together sometime in August. I’m excited to hear how other folks think about this but I definitely have some opinions. Like many answers to questions about Benchling “it depends” but I can absolutely show pros, cons, and considerations for different methods 🙃

How do I export results? For instance, there’s a results table that we use for every single project in our company, that up until now one of the fields has always had the same units, so we never bothered to capture that information. Now we want to include a different units option. My plan is to just add a column where users can capture this data, but I will also need to retroactively update existing results. While I could easily do this with entities, I have no idea how to do this for results. TIA

@LauraTRondoTX I’ve brought this idea up in the past, and currently there’s no nice way to achieve this. Depending on the number of existing results that need updating, I would suggest either:

Low-medium number of results - archive and resubmit via the Benchling UI (Entries) where the results are submitted.
large number of results - bulk archive and bulk submit via the API/SDK.

@kyleweise thanks for the response and the link to your previous post (helpful!).

In this instance, I’d be dealing with a rather large number of results (thousands to possibly tens of thousands - I’m not entirely sure, since I also still haven’t figured out how to get a visual on/export these data), so I’ll have to go the second route… but I am a bench scientist who still can’t remember (regardless of looking it up multiple times) what API stands for, let alone how to use it.

After reading your post, I think I’m better off just implementing a “from this point on, add this extra set of info” tact.

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