Insights Labs is a new beta program at Benchling for the Insights area. In order to get new charts types, chart customizations, and other UI upgrades in your hands as fast as possible, we've created this voluntary program.

New features will be added rapidly to this beta program and clearly labeled as beta. Most features added to Insights Labs will be available there for a few weeks or months before being broadly released. Keep in mind that though we will do our utmost to avoid it, features in this set may break, disappear, or change without warning. For more about what it means for features to be in beta, see our article that describes the Benchling release stages. 

Please keep in mind that an analysis or analysis template that is created with an Insights Labs feature may but is not guaranteed to work for a user who does not have Insights Labs enabled.

Getting Access

Your tenant administrator can enable access to "Insights Labs" by navigating to the Tenant admin console > Settings  > Insights. This can be enabled for specific users, all users. The default is disabled for all users.

Current Feature List

Analysis Left-Sidebar Improvements

Improvements to left-side bar options and UI:

• Deeper view nesting: allows for nesting of views with more than one level
   
• Search: easily find views within the sidebar with search
   
• Direct View Creation: create new views from any parent or child view in the sidebar
   
• Go to Flowchart: click to focus on a specific view in the Flowchart editor

Charting Capabilities

Improvements to chart types and configuration options: 

• Box Plot: A new chart type displaying the classic box plot visualization
   
• Color Picking: A color customization tool that gives you direct control over chart colors
   
• Point Styling: Allows you to select styling of points/markers, including customizing the opacity of points
   
• Custom Axis Labeling: Allows you to custom-define axis labels on charts
   
• Right Sidebar: New look and feel for the configuration sidebar
   
• Legend Settings: Hide the legend, change its position, or add a custom label

Note: Color picking, point styling, and custom axis labeling apply to all chart types except for regressions. 

Editable Analysis Flowchart - Filters & Transforms

With this addition, filter steps and transformation steps will be editable from the flowchart view of an analysis. Other steps are viewable but not yet editable. We will gradually be adding the ability to edit more kinds of steps from the flowchart view. 

Experiment Optimization 

Experiment Optimization is a powerful analysis tool that helps you understand and optimize your experiments. It's designed to solve complex, multi-dimensional problems where an outcome is affected by many interacting variables. For more information on how Experiment Optimization works, see the linked article. 

Note: To access this feature in beta you must have a license to either Advanced Analysis or Bioprocess. 

Visual Flagging

Visual flagging tool allows you to use charts and graphs to identify and mark data points that appear to be significantly different from the rest of the data. This tool allows you to flag the unusual data points for further investigation or exclusion.

You can apply visual flagging to the following plots: 

• Regression

For more information on how to use the feature visit the Visual Flagging section of our Analyze Data with Benchling Analysis article.

Note: To access this feature in beta you must have a license to either Advanced Analysis or Bioprocess.