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Bench Mate

Name: Bench Mate
Author: Paul H. Kim

A personal lab workspace for protocols, notebook entries, freezer inventory, plasmid records and everyday bench calculations, stored locally in your browser.

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What it does

Protocols and notebook entries that link to the samples they used
Freezer inventory: freezers hold boxes, boxes hold wells, wells hold registered samples with stable IDs
Low-stock thresholds for anything you don't want to run out of
Plasmid and sequence records (GenBank, FASTA or pasted)
Everyday bench calculations

Where it runs

Runs in your web browser and stores everything locally. No account and no server.

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