Case Study: Zymergen achieves unified, scalable lab informatics and complete experiment histories with Benchling

Integrating the Custom Solutions of a Technology Powerhouse

Zymergen, an industrial biotechnology company that engineers microbes to produce high-value molecules, faced fragmented operations caused by many siloed custom software systems and proprietary algorithms. Scientists struggled to enter, extract, and share complete experimental context across strain optimization and fermentation/production teams, and those disparate systems could not scale with the company’s rapid growth.

Zymergen integrated Benchling as a central informatics platform, linking proprietary analysis algorithms, instruments, and niche tools to enable automated real-time data capture, templatized notebooks, protocol versioning, and role-based permissions. The result is unified, step-by-step experiment histories and seamless cross-team collaboration, internal onboarding that scaled from 10 to 140+ users, faster decision-quality results, and secure handling of classified client data.

Zymergen

Jed Dean

Founder