The setting
makes cloud software for research and development in life sciences. helps scientists set up, run, and track laboratory studies, workflows, and assays.
Correct measurement times compete with preserving the customer's instrument export format.
Changing the adapter protects other consumers of the export, while changing the instrument protects a simpler adapter.
Who you’d be doing this for
“I opened the assay and it looked like we'd measured the sample before collecting it.”
Hana Rostami · Laboratory Development Scientist · a character in this brief
Participates in tomorrow's pilot and checks imported assay results against sample collection times.
What is at stake
Eight of 40 instrument results appear before sample collection in a customer's pilot. You must weigh an adapter change against changing an export that other applications already consume.
Why it isn’t already fixed
Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.
- adapter flexibility vs source standardization
- pilot acceptance vs wider consumer testing
- local readability vs consistent measurement instants
Why Benchling
Sample Testing must fit an instrument feed whose export format also serves the customer's legacy applications.
Written with these in mind
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- Solution Consultant - R&D (opens in a new tab)
- Their solutions are deployed into complex enterprise IT environments, interfacing with other vendor solutions, lab instruments, and legacy applications.
- You must work as a trusted adviser to translate customer objectives into detailed solutions and effectively communicate and demonstrate those solutions to prospects and customers.
- Enterprise Solutions Architect (opens in a new tab)
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