Case Study: Spotlight Therapeutics achieves unified lab management and Big Data analytics with Benchling

Startup unifies lab management to pave the way for Big Data analytics

Spotlight Therapeutics is a small gene‑therapy startup developing Targeted Active Gene Editors (TAGE) for in vivo CRISPR delivery. As the team grew, lab operations became constrained by a single person managing an Excel inventory, inconsistent naming and data capture across Notebook entries, and siloed systems that prevented large‑scale analysis and smooth collaboration.

Spotlight expanded Benchling from Notebook to Registry and Inventory, standardized naming and data fields, and built custom API tools to automate workflows. The unified system improved inventory visibility and traceability, enabled big‑data queries to find top‑performing editors, and accelerated teamwork—scientists estimate experiments run 25% faster, data cleaning saves about 2 hours per scientist per week, and ease of collaboration increased 61%.

Spotlight Therapeutics

Aaron Cantor

Protein Scientist