Bench Work Tools

Lab and project management

1degreebio 

Reagent marketplace.

Antibody Registry 

Gives researchers a way to universally identify antibodies used in in the course of their research.

Biocompare 

Find products, read reviews and hear about the latest technological developments.

ELabInventory 

A web-based laboratory inventory management system designed for life science research laboratories.

LabCritics 

Provides researchers with a trust-able source of lab equipment reviews and comparisons.

LabGuru 

Supports day to day activities of a research group, from vision to execution, from knowledge to logistics.

Lab Suit 

Inventory Management, orders Management, materials Trade-In, price Comparison.

Open Science Framework 

Gathers a network of research documents, a version control system, and a collaboration software.

Ovation 

Simplifies your scientific life from sample tracking for startup labs to data management.

Quartzy 

A free and easy way to manage your lab.

Riffyn 

Cloud software for visual, collaborative, reproducible innovation.

StrainControl 

Lab management tools that allow you to organize strains, plasmids, oligos, antibodies, chemicals, and inventory.

Sage Bionetworks 

Platform to support open, collaborative data analysis for clear, reproducible science.

Electronic lab notebook

Docollab 

Helps you manage your scientific research, collaborate with your colleagues and publish your findings.

elabftw 

Electronic lab notebook made by researchers, for researchers, with usability in mind.

Evernote  

A place to collect inspirational ideas, write meaningful words and move your important projects forward.

Findings App 

Lab notebook app that allows organizing your experiments, keep track of results and manage your protocols.

Hivebench 

Hosted numeric laboratory notebook tool to manage protocols, experiments and share them with your team.

LabArchives 

Web-based product to enable researchers to store, organize, and publish their research data.

Labfolder 

A simple way to document your research and to organize your protocols and data.

sciNote 

Open source lab notebook with workflows and modular functionalities.

Sumatra 

Automated electronic lab notebook for computational projects.

Outsourcing experiments

Emerald Cloud Lab 

A web-based life sciences lab, developed by scientists for scientists.

ScienceExchange 

Marketplace for shared lab instrumentations.

TetraScience 

Allows you to monitor & manage your experiments from anywhere.

Transcriptic 

A remote, on-demand robotic life science research lab with no hardware to buy or software to install.

Connected instrumentation

BioBright 

Provide a better understanding of experimental conditions by connecting sensors to instruments.

QReserve  

QReserve makes science easier with tools and services that help you access the resources.

Find and share samples

Addgene 

Plasmid sharing platform.

Antibody Registry 

Gives researchers a way to universally identify antibodies used in in the course of their research.

Biospecimens 

Platform for biospecimen-based research.

Duke human heart 

Repository for cardiovascular research scientists, including tissues samples and information.

ELabInventory 

A web-based laboratory inventory management system designed for life science research laboratories.

Sample of Science 

Peer-Sharing Platform for Scientific Samples.

Protocol repository

Benchfly 

Video protocols and video platform for scientists.

Benchling 

Life science data management and collaboration platform, where you can create, find and discuss protocols.

IPOL journal 

Research journal of image processing and image analysis with algorithm descriptions and its source code.

MyExperiment 

Share workflows and in silico experiments.

OpenWetWare 

Share information, know-how, wisdom, and protocols among researchers working in biological fields.

Pegasus 

A platform that helps workflow-based applications execute.

Protocols 

Crowdsourced universal protocol repository.

Protocol online 

A curator of protocols contributed by researchers around the world.

Scientific Protocols 

Share scientific protocols using the GitHub platform.

Work with code

CDE Tool 

Deploy and run your Linux programs on other machines without any installation or configuration.

Dexy 

Helps your code to speak for itself with beautiful syntax highlighting.

GitLab 

A git repository management, code reviews, issue tracking and wiki’s all in one platform.

Jupyter Notebook 

An interactive computational environment that allows code execution, text, mathematics, plots, and rich media.

Kepler 

Helps create, execute, and share models and analyses across scientific and engineering disciplines.

nanoHUB 

A centralized platform for computational nanotechnology research, education, and collaboration.

ROpenSci 

Packages that allow access to data repositories through the R statistical programming environment.

Sweave 

Allows embedding the R code for complete data analyses in latex documents.

System in Cloud 

A platform, enabling clients to rapidly draw and execute data-flow diagram that runs in the cloud.

Work with data

Castor EDC 

User-friendly and affordable online data collection for medical research.

Dat data 

Open source decentralized data tool for distributing datasets small and large.

Desktop Genetics 

Desktop Genetics walks you through every aspect of your genome editing experiment, guiding you from design to data and allowing you to fully realize the utility of CRISPR technology.

Galaxy Project 

Web-based platform for data intensive biomedical research.

GenePattern 

The genomic analysis platform that provides access to hundreds of genomics tools.

TwistBioscience 

Silicon-based DNA writing platform that provides access to high-quality oligonucleotides, genes, and libraries.

InSIlico DB 

Genomics made possible for biologists without programming.

Kitware 

Advanced software solutions and services for data-intensive R&D.

mloss  

Machine learning open source software.

MyExperiment 

Share workflows and in silico experiments.

Ovation 

Simplifies your scientific life from sample tracking for startup labs to data management.

PCR Drive 

A free platform that supports researchers in all their PCR-related processes.

Plotly  

Online tool to graph and share data.

Statcrunch 

Provides data analysis via the Web.

Wakari 

Web-based python data analysis.

Wings 

Semantic workflow system that assists scientists with the design of computational experiments.

Wolfram Alpha 

Web-based tools for scientific calculations.

Fundraising/Grantwriting

Grant Forward 

Search engine for research grants.

Instrumentl 

Grant database and search tool that learns about specific research projects and then matches them with the best grants available.

Pivot COS 

A database which includes funding opportunities from all disciplines.

Lab Leader 

Lab Leader’s life science tools save time and money, eliminate mistakes and guarantee a smooth information flow in your lab.

More tools coming soon!!!