From Plates to Pools: An Intuitive Benchling Workflow for Scalable Sample Tracking

Consultants Caitlin Tormey and Angel Kleiman showcased their creative insight on a challenge we see across high-throughput labs.

Plate planning and pooling can be complex, difficult to visualize, and prone to manual overhead and error. Caitlin and Angel showed that you can have the flexibility of unstructured plate layouts, with the traceability of structured inventory tables. Thoughtful workflow design can empower scientists and accelerate science, without adding unnecessary complexity. 

Read below for details on how they automated multi-plate pooling and registration with a scalable framework that can go beyond a single assay type.

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