Case Study: Zymergen achieves scalable R&D collaboration and custom technology integration with Benchling

Integrating the Custom Solutions of a Technology Powerhouse

Zymergen is an industrial biotechnology company that engineers microbes to produce high‑value commercial molecules. As the company scaled, scientists struggled to collaborate and share information, R&D teams needed an informatics solution that could adapt to rapid organizational change, and extensive custom software and instrumentation required a platform that could integrate with internal tools.

Benchling provided a scalable informatics platform that was customized and integrated with Zymergen’s proprietary high‑throughput microbial engineering system. Deployment grew from 10 to over 140 users with continuous onboarding, while flexible team structures, entry templates, and shared sequence inventories supported ongoing collaboration and expansion.

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