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SLIM links every entry to the real sample, the exact protocol version and the instrument it ran on, so nothing gets lost, even when people leave. We move your spreadsheets in for you.

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Genomics  ·  Lab notebook Open

Wash and reload, second cell

Daniel Pondělíček · 18 September 2026

Flow cell reuse trial

Second cell of the trial. Washed with the ONT kit, then counted pores before loading: 640 active, against 1,190 on the first cell last week. Loaded the same library, 1 ng input, onto FC-1034.

FC-1034
Flow Cells
LotLOT-94079
Active pores2100
Expiry date2026-09-04
QC passed✓
Nanopore ligation sequencing v3
Step 4
Load
Inputs
Flush bufferSequencing buffer
Machines
MinION
Outputs
Loaded flow cell

Sound familiar?

Three things that happen in every lab, every month.

A reviewer asks for a detail nobody wrote down.

The result is in the figure, but the lot number, the concentration and the instrument settings never made it into the notebook, because writing everything up took too long.

SLIM: link the vial, the protocol and the instrument in a few keystrokes, so the full context is recorded as you work.

The materials you need are nowhere to be found.

Someone moved the box, the label has smudged, and the spreadsheet says freezer 2 when it is in freezer 3. Twenty minutes gone at the freezer door.

SLIM: every item has a position, an owner and an NFC tag. Tap it with a phone and you know what it is and where it belongs.

Two people booked the same instrument for the same time.

The sheet on the door says one thing, the shared calendar another. Someone’s samples wait, and someone’s day is gone.

SLIM: one booking calendar per instrument, where the whole lab sees who has which slot before taking one.
Book a 30-min demoSee it working on your own spreadsheet.

How it fits together

Six parts of a lab, one connected record.

Not six products with an integration story. Hover over a module to see what it links to, and click to open it.Not six products with an integration story. Tap a module to see what it links to.

Notebookwhat happened Inventory Protocols Equipment Projects Tasks Tags references a specimen embeds the version used names the instrument belongs to raises the next step opens the record step inputs step needs plans labels

The centre of the record

Lab notebook

Every entry says what actually happened and links to everything it touched: the vial, the protocol version, the instrument, the project and the next task. Who wrote it and when is recorded automatically.

Wash and reload, second cell

Loaded the library onto FC-1034 following Nanopore ligation v3 on the MinION, for Flow cell reuse trial.

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What the lab has

Inventory

Warehouses that nest the way your freezers do, with typed columns, required fields and alerts on stock and expiry. Import the spreadsheet you already have, or let us do it for you.

Sequencing Core · 12 items · 34 in sub-warehouses
▤Flow Cells10 items · 8 alerts
▤Library Kits8 items · 2 alerts
▤Index Adapters16 items

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How it is done

Protocols

Versioned methods broken into steps, each declaring its inputs, the instrument it needs and what it produces. Drop one into an entry and it stays at the version you ran.

Nanopore ligation sequencing · v3
1End-prepinput · DNA library
2Adapter ligationThermal cycler
3Wash and count poresFC-1034
4LoadMinION

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What it ran on

Equipment

Every instrument with its manuals, service record and booking calendar. The machine a protocol step names is the machine you reserve.

Thermal cycler · September

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Why it was done

Projects

Research threads with members, sub-projects and their own visibility. Entries and tasks roll up into the project they belong to.

Flow cell reuse trial
▤Entries12
▤Open tasks3
▤Members4
▤Sub-project · Pore QCprivate

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What happens next

Tasks

Plans, buckets and cards with an assignee, a due date and a checklist. An entry can raise the next step, and everything assigned to you is on one page.

Genome assembly pipeline

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From the shelf to the record

Tags

NFC and barcode tags on your vials and boxes. Touch a phone to one and the record opens, with every entry it was used in. 500 a year are included.

Scanned · SPC-0141
ItempGG-A-35S
Position-20 °C · Box 3
OwnerJiří Hermann
Used in4 entries

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Migration included

We move your lab into SLIM. You just send the files.

Most lab software fails at the migration, when somebody has to move years of spreadsheets and nobody has the time. So we do it for you. It is included in the price, and we stay with you until the whole lab is using it.

Your part

  • Send us your files, as they are
  • Check a sample of the result
  • Join one training session

Our part

Everything else.

  • Clean up and map your data
  • Build your inventory and alerts
  • Move it all in, paper records too
  • Train your lab and your admin
  • Stay on call after launch

How the move works

  1. 1You

    Send us your files

    Spreadsheets, freezer maps, paper notes. As messy as they are.

    We reply with what we found in them.

  2. 2Us

    We build your SLIM

    Typed columns, units, IDs and alerts set to the thresholds your lab actually uses.

    You do nothing here.

  3. 3Together

    Check it together

    You spot-check a sample. We fix anything that is off.

    It is not done until you say it is.

  4. 4Us

    Go live with training

    One session for the lab, one for whoever runs it, in English or Czech.

    Then a direct line to us, not a ticket queue.

Book a 30-min demoSend a spreadsheet beforehand and watch us migrate it on the call.

The real cost of spreadsheets

Your spreadsheet is a disaster waiting to happen.

It works, until someone overwrites a column, deletes forty rows or leaves with the only version that makes sense. And it always happens on the day you can least afford it.

  1. The spreadsheet
  2. The same rows, typed

The file the lab actually runs on, locked by whoever opened it first.

Sheet1 · last saved by Jiří
nameText · required concMeasurement locDropdown expDate · alerts whoPerson
pGG-A-35SpGG-A-35S 50 ng/ul50 ng/µL -20 box3-20 °C · Box 3  Required JHJiří Hermann
pGGB003pGGB003 50ng/µl50 ng/µL -20, box 3-20 °C · Box 3 12/2612 Dec 2026 JirkaJiří Hermann
Amp stockAmpicillin stock 100100 mg/mL fridge4 °C · Door 3.11.263 Nov · 67 days ?Required
Col-0 seeds 2024Col-0 seeds 2024  Required seed roomSeed room · Shelf 2  1 Sep 2027  Viktor Šimek
primer_M13FPrimer M13F 100uM100 µM -20 boxA-20 °C · Box A 202630 Jun 2027 ask JanaHelena Marešová
In a spreadsheet
In SLIM
Two people edit at once. One overwrites the other and _FINAL_v3 is born.
Every change is saved with who made it and when. Nothing gets lost.
Forty rows get deleted and nobody notices for six months.
Nothing is deleted, only archived, and it can always be restored.
The postdoc who built the sheet leaves, and the logic leaves with them.
The structure is built in and applies to everyone, whoever joins or leaves.
Half the rows have no owner, no date or no location.
Required fields. A record cannot be saved half-done.
Nobody notices the antibiotic expires next week.
Expiry and low-stock alerts reach the whole lab in time.
You cannot link an experiment to “row 47”.
Every sample has a permanent ID your notebook links to.

Spreadsheets are still great for quick analysis, so SLIM exports back to Excel whenever you want.

Every month you wait, the mess grows.

More rows to untangle, more knowledge living only in people’s heads, more chances that something gets lost. The migration is on us either way, so the best time to move is before the next thing goes wrong.

Send us your spreadsheetWe will show you your own lab in SLIM on a 30-minute call.

One price for the whole lab. Not one per person in it.

The PI, the postdocs, the students, the technician, the visiting collaborator. Adding a person has never cost anything and it never will. On annual billing a ten-person lab pays €1,920 a year. Per-seat tools typically charge that for a handful of seats.

Lab
€200€160€200 / month per lab

Billed annually: €1,920 a year. You save €480.Billed monthly. Pay annually and save 20%.

Everyone in one laboratory, unlimited people. By invoice, against a purchase order if you need one.

  • Migration of your spreadsheets and training, included
  • Notebook, inventory, protocols, equipment, projects, tasks
  • Unlimited users, no seat licences
  • 500 NFC and barcode tags a year
  • Full audit trail, export any time
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Institution
Quoted

Several labs, or self-hosted on your own infrastructure. The price per lab falls as more of your institute joins.

  • Volume pricing across labs
  • Self-hosted, installed by us
  • Organisation-wide roles
  • A named contact who answers
Book an institution demo

Every lab starts with a free trial that runs until you are set up, with no countdown and no card. Students: your personal notebook is free.

Before you book: the questions everyone asks.

Can we get our data out again?

Yes, all of it, at any time, without asking us. Warehouses export to CSV, entries to PDF and to Markdown source, the whole notebook in one file. We would rather you never feel trapped than keep you by making leaving hard.

Can we host it ourselves?

Yes, with the complete product and nothing held back. It runs on your own institutional infrastructure, our team does the install and stays on for support, and it is priced per deployment rather than listed. Ask and we will quote it.

Who can see our data?

Only the people you let in. SLIM is built for GDPR, with a data processing agreement available, or it can run on your own infrastructure. Five roles decide who sees what: Owner, Administrator, Lab Manager, Contributor and Viewer. Individual notebooks, projects and protocols can each be private to their author.

My people will not use it. What then?

That is the real risk and we treat it as ours. We move your existing data in, including anything that only exists on paper, and we train the lab. The trial stays open while that happens. If the lab genuinely does not adopt it, you have lost a few meetings.

We are not in the Czech Republic. Does that matter?

No. SLIM is built for labs across the EU and the UK. The interface and support are in English (and Czech), and migration and training run over a video call. We are a small team in Prague, so you talk to the people who build it.

How long does setup take?

On average, a lab is in production within a month, including migration and training. A working inventory usually takes days rather than weeks, depending on how much data you send and how tidy it is.

See your own lab in SLIM, in 30 minutes.

Send us a spreadsheet before the call. We build your inventory from it, show you around it live, and you keep it whether you continue or not.

Book a 30-min demoSee pricing