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
Boxplot
A new chart type that shows the classic box plot chart type.
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.
Look up
- The new look up step allows users to dynamically retrieve metadata stored in Benchling from a selected dataset field and subsequently join it with other datasets in Analysis.
- Expanding on the existing “Create an Analysis from Plate Data” functionality, this new feature introduces dynamic dataset updates, allowing metadata to be retrieved from newly created datasets instead of relying on static dataset configurations. You can now include this step as part of your template and re-run it with any new dataset.
This is particularly valuable for plate-based analyses, such as when referencing plate map metadata like well role, or when supplementary entity metadata is required for downstream analysis.
Additionally, the lookup step can be viewed and edited through the Flowchart view, offering improved visibility and control over the overall analysis workflow
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.