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Notes from building the operating system for the cell culture lab
How labs actually track experiments, samples, instruments and money, what breaks when that lives in spreadsheets, and what we are building instead.
001Fluorescence modelling: choosing filters for a multichannel microscopePicking excitation filters, dichroic mirrors and emission filters means working out how much light survives each element. Here is the spectral maths, the open source app we built to do it, and the filter cube we designed around the answer.002ELN vs LIMS: which one does a cell culture lab actually need?An ELN records what you did and a LIMS tracks what you have. A cell culture lab needs both, and they need to be connected. Here is how they differ and what to look for.003Why the freezer spreadsheet always driftsEvery lab starts with a freezer spreadsheet, and it works until the freezer gets busy. Here is why it drifts out of step with what is actually in the box, and what to do about it.
Run your lab on structured data
CCA Labs puts experiments, samples, inventory, instrument data and lab finances in one place. Teams sign up themselves and the AI sets up their lab from the documents they upload.