Best Engineering Software for Startups - Page 39
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Ansys Zemax OpticStudio
Ansys
Ansys Zemax OpticStudio is a comprehensive optical design software utilized globally by companies and universities to create and analyze optical systems, including imaging, illumination, and laser systems. It offers a user-friendly interface that integrates analysis, optimization, and tolerancing tools, facilitating the design of complex optical systems for a wide range of applications. The software supports both sequential and non-sequential ray tracing, enabling precise modeling of light propagation through various optical components. Advanced features include structural and thermal analysis, allowing users to assess the impact of environmental factors on optical performance. OpticStudio also provides extensive materials and optical element libraries, enhancing the accuracy of simulations. For students, Ansys offers a free version of OpticStudio, providing hands-on experience in designing and analyzing optical systems, thereby preparing them for future careers in optics. -
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OSLO
Lambda Research Corporation
OSLO (Optics Software for Layout and Optimization) is a comprehensive optical design program developed by Lambda Research Corporation. It integrates advanced ray tracing, analysis, and optimization methods with a high-speed internal compiled language, enabling users to address a wide array of challenges in optical design. OSLO's open architecture provides designers with significant flexibility to define and constrain systems according to their specific requirements. The software is capable of modeling various optical components, including refractive, reflective, diffractive, gradient index, aspheric, and freeform optics. Its robust ray tracing algorithms and analytical tools offer a solid foundation for optimizing and evaluating lenses, telescopes, and other optical systems. OSLO has been employed in designing numerous optical systems, such as space telescopes, camera lenses, zoom lenses, scanning systems, anamorphic systems, cinema systems, microscopes, ocular systems, etc. -
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Ansys Lumerical Multiphysics is a photonics component simulation software that enables the seamless design of photonic components by capturing multiphysics effects, including optical, thermal, electrical, and quantum well interactions, within a unified design environment. Tailored for design engineering workflows, this intuitive product design software offers a fast user experience, facilitating rapid design exploration and providing detailed insights into real-world product performance. It combines live physics and accurate high-fidelity simulation into an easy-to-use interface, supporting faster time-to-market. Key features include a finite element design environment, integrated multiphysics workflows, comprehensive material models, and capabilities for automation and optimization. The suite of solvers and seamless workflows in Lumerical Multiphysics accurately capture the interplay of physical effects in modeling both passive and active photonic components.
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LightTools
Synopsys
LightTools is a comprehensive 3D optical engineering and design software that supports virtual prototyping, simulation, optimization, and photorealistic renderings of illumination applications. It enables users to quickly create illumination designs that work right the first time, reducing prototype iterations and accelerating time to market. Key features include sophisticated solid modeling with full optical accuracy, state-of-the-art ray tracing speed with user-controlled accuracy and resolution, and the ability to create light sources from any geometric model for unlimited flexibility. LightTools offers application-specific utilities to help users quickly build complete models, extensive source and materials libraries, including LEDs and BSDF measurements, and robust data exchange support for mechanical CAD data. The software provides an interactive, dynamic link with SOLIDWORKS and includes multiple modules that can be licensed in various configurations to best match user needs. -
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OptSim
Synopsys
Synopsys OptSim is an award-winning photonic integrated circuit (PIC) and fiber-optic system simulator that enables engineers to design and optimize photonic circuits and systems. It offers state-of-the-art time- and frequency-domain split-step algorithms, providing a native photonic-domain environment for accurate simulations. OptSim can function as a standalone solution with its own graphical user interface or integrate into the OptoCompiler Photonic IC design platform. When integrated with OptoCompiler, OptSim supports electro-optic co-simulation with Synopsys PrimeSim HSPICE and PrimeSim SPICE electrical circuit simulators, and seamlessly integrates with the PrimeWave Design Environment for advanced simulation, analyses, and visualization, including parametric scans, Monte Carlo, and corner analyses. The software includes extensive libraries of photonic and electronic components and analysis tools, and supports numerous foundry process design kits (PDKs). -
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OptoCompiler
Synopsys
Synopsys OptoCompiler is the industry's first unified electronic and photonic design platform, combining mature and dedicated photonic technology with Synopsys' industry-proven electronic design tools to enable engineers to produce and verify complex photonic integrated circuit designs quickly and accurately. By providing schematic-driven layout and advanced photonic layout synthesis in a single platform, OptoCompiler bridges the gap between photonic experts and integrated circuit designers to make photonic design accessible, fast, and flexible. OptoCompiler supports electronic-photonic co-design to ensure scalable design processes and offers comprehensive features for hierarchical design, enabling multiple designers to work closely together to shorten product development cycle times. The platform includes dedicated native photonic simulators, in conjunction with industry-standard electrical simulators, for accurate simulation results that account for statistical variations. -
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OpTaliX
Optenso
OpTaliX is a comprehensive program for computer-aided design of optical systems, thin film multilayer coatings, and illumination systems. It provides powerful features to conceptualize, design, optimize, analyze, tolerate, and document virtually any optical system. OpTaliX includes geometrical and diffraction analysis, optimization, thin film multilayer analysis and refinement, non-sequential ray tracing, physical optics propagation, polarization analysis, ghost imaging, tolerance analysis, extensive manufacturing support, user-defined graphics, illumination, macros, and many more. It is successfully used for the design of photographic and video lenses, industrial optics (beam expanders, laser scanners, reproduction, machine vision), space optics, zoom optics, medical optics, illumination devices, fiber optical telecom systems, infrared optics, X-ray optics, telescopes, eyepieces, and many more.Starting Price: €1,600 one-time payment -
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RayViz
Lambda Research Corporation
RayViz is a SOLIDWORKS add-in developed by Lambda Research Corporation that enables users to apply and save optical properties directly within the SOLIDWORKS CAD environment. This integration allows for the assignment of optical characteristics from the TracePro property database, which are then stored as part of the SOLIDWORKS model. Users can define light sources and perform ray tracing within SOLIDWORKS to visualize light rays and paths, facilitating tasks such as beam path verification, detection of vignetting by mechanical structures, and identification of light leakage in light guides. RayViz includes catalogs of LED sources, as well as sources with Gaussian and Lambertian beam profiles. A significant advantage of RayViz is its ability to save SOLIDWORKS models in TracePro file format, enabling comprehensive optical analysis in TracePro. If modifications are made to the SOLIDWORKS model, the "update from RayViz" option in TracePro allows for synchronization of the changes. -
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VirtualLab Fusion
LightTrans
VirtualLab Fusion is an advanced optical design software that facilitates fast physical optics modeling by connecting various field solvers through a unique operator and channel concept. This integration enables efficient simulations that balance accuracy and speed. The software offers a range of packages tailored to specific optical design needs, providing tools and functionalities to support diverse applications. With an intuitive user interface, VirtualLab Fusion simplifies the design process, allowing users to focus on innovation and optimization. The platform also provides access to tips, tricks, training, and webinars to enhance user proficiency. -
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LucidShape
Synopsys
Quickly and easily create reflector or lens geometry with LucidShape FunGeo. It leverages proprietary algorithms that automatically calculate and construct optical geometries based on user-defined illuminance and intensity patterns. This unique, functional approach gives you the freedom to focus on overall design objectives rather than the implementation details of complex optical components. Accelerate LucidShape illumination simulations with GPUTrace and experience a quantum leap in speed. LucidShape is the first optical simulation software to take advantage of graphics processing unit computing to deliver simulation speed increases by orders of magnitude compared to multithreading capabilities. Use LucidShape's visualization module to demonstrate luminance effects when light sources in a model are illuminated and depict all interactions between system geometry and light sources. -
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ImSym
Synopsys
Visualize images with precise, quantitative data. Streamline your development process. Deliver your next great imaging product to market faster. Provides an end-to-end model of an imaging system, including lenses, sensors, and image and signal processors (ISPs) before manufacturing. Helps design teams collaborate more efficiently. Ensures confidence that products will work right when built. Automate ImSym processes with a Python interface. Customize ISP capabilities using Python scripted routines. Provides an intuitive, integrated, collaborative workflow for an exceptional user experience. Delivers accurate results powered by industry-proven CODE V and LightTools. ImSym integrates multiple features to simulate an imaging system object using an input graphics file. ImSym’s accuracy is powered by CODE V and LightTools, the most trusted imaging and illumination optics design solutions in the industry. -
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Synopsys TCAD
Synopsys
Technology Computer-Aided Design (TCAD) refers to the use of computer simulations to develop and optimize semiconductor process technologies and devices. Synopsys TCAD offers a comprehensive suite of products that includes industry-leading process and device simulation tools, as well as a powerful graphical user interface-driven simulation environment for managing simulation tasks and analyzing simulation results. In addition, Synopsys TCAD provides tools for interconnect modeling and extraction, providing critical parasitic information for optimizing chip performance. The latest version of TCAD Sentaurus includes many new exciting features and performance enhancements. If you are a customer entitled to maintenance services, then you can access TCAD Sentaurus W-2024.09-SP1 and download release notes directly from SolvNetPlus. Sentaurus Calibration Workbench is built for automated workflow-oriented calibration of TCAD models, based on innovative machine learning capabilities. -
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PrimeWave Design Environment
Synopsys
The Synopsys PrimeWave Design Environment is a comprehensive and flexible, AI-driven environment for simulation setup and analysis of analog, RF, mixed-signal design, custom-digital, and memory designs within the Synopsys Custom Design Family. It delivers a seamless simulation experience around all the engines of Synopsys PrimeSim simulators, with comprehensive analysis, improved productivity, and ease of use. As a key component of the Synopsys AI-Driven Analog Design solution, the Synopsys PrimeWave Design Environment can optimize complex analog designs, across multiple test-benches and hundreds of PVT corners and quickly converge on optimal design points that meet the engineer’s specifications. The PrimeWave Design Environment also offers a unified workflow-driven analysis for all PrimeSim Reliability Analysis applications consisting of guided analysis setup, intuitive visualization, and debug and root-causing capabilities to enable a reliability-aware design methodology. -
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3DIC Compiler
Synopsys
Synopsys 3DIC Compiler, built on the industry’s leading digital implementation platform and using a common fusion data model, enables seamless migration to 2.5/3D heterogeneous integration. In a single environment, the platform allows analysis-driven feasibility exploration, multi-die partitioning, and foundry technology selection for prototyping and floor planning. This enables analysis-driven design implementation, including advanced packaging and die-to-die routing, with golden signoff verification. 3DIC Compiler integrates with Synopsys 3DSO.ai, the industry’s first autonomous AI optimization solution for multi-die designs, to maximize system performance and quality of results for thermal integrity, signal integrity, and power network design. The 3DIC Compiler platform, successfully adopted by customers, is certified by leading foundries for advanced process and packaging technologies. -
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Simpleware
Synopsys
Unlock the power of Simpleware software to seamlessly process 3D & 4D image data from MRI, CT, and micro-CT. Dive into your data with advanced visualization, detailed analysis, and accurate quantification. Create precise models ready for design, simulation, and 3D printing workflows. The Simpleware W-2024.12 release advances Simpleware software's further adoption of AI-assisted segmentation tools and streamlined design features to accelerate all your 3D image processing and analysis workflows. Our industry-leading 3D image processing and model generation platform allows you to create products and workflows from 3D & 4D image data and integrate seamlessly with design and simulation tools. Intuitive interface with quick-and-easy access to all tools and features. Comprehensive analysis of even the most complex 3D image data. Generate design and simulation-ready models of the highest quality. -
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Sentaurus Process
Synopsys
Sentaurus Process is an advanced 1D, 2D and 3D process simulator for developing and optimizing silicon semiconductor process technologies. It is a new-generation process simulator for addressing the challenges found in current and future process technologies. Equipped with a set of advanced process models, which include default parameters calibrated with data from equipment vendors, Sentaurus Process provides a predictive framework for simulating a broad range of technologies from nanoscale CMOS to large-scale high-voltage power devices. Sentaurus Process is part of a comprehensive suite of core TCAD products for multi-dimensional process, device, and system simulations, embedded into a powerful user interface. Fast prototyping, development, and optimization of a broad range of technologies with comprehensive physics-based process modeling capabilities. Enhance device performance by optimization of thermal and mechanical stress in process structures with stress history. -
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DWSIM
DWSIM
DWSIM is a free and open source CAPE-OPEN compliant chemical process simulator that operates across multiple platforms, including Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, and iOS. It features an intuitive graphical user interface and offers capabilities previously exclusive to commercial simulators. DWSIM supports both steady-state and dynamic simulations, utilizing a parallel modular solver for efficient modeling. It includes advanced property packages. The simulator provides a comprehensive suite of unit operations, including mixers, splitters, separators, pumps, compressors, expanders, heaters, coolers, valves, pipe segments, shortcut columns, heat exchangers, various reactors, distillation and absorption columns, solids separators, cake filters, spreadsheets, Python scripts, and flowsheet unit operations. It also provides an Excel Add-In for performing thermodynamic calculations within spreadsheets and an automation API for creating, loading, modifying, running, and saving flowsheets.Starting Price: Free -
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ALCAD
ALCADS
ALCAD 2D/3D is the best AutoCAD Alternative. Same interface and functions as AutoCAD. This product only includes the CAD. Compare-Table ALCAD with AutoCAD here: Compare ALCAD | ALCAD (alcads.com) ALCAD – the fully compatible DWG-CAD CAD Interface and functions same as AutoCAD. ALCAD 2025 Professional 2D/3D is available as annual licence 199€ or one-time permanent licence for 349€.Starting Price: $199 -
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iTwin Capture Modeler
Bentley
iTwin Capture Modeler is a comprehensive desktop application developed by Bentley Systems, designed to create engineering-ready reality data for infrastructure projects. It enables users to generate multiresolution 3D models, such as reality meshes, point clouds, and orthophotos, from simple photographs or LiDAR point clouds, providing precise digital context for design, construction, and operations workflows. The software supports projects of any scale, from small objects to entire cities, and offers advanced features like masks, water constraints, and retouching tools to enhance reality data. iTwin Capture Modeler is available in two versions, the standard edition and iTwin Capture Modeler Center, which allows for unlimited clustering to expedite the processing of large-scale projects. The application ensures interoperability by supporting a wide range of GIS formats, facilitating seamless integration into various workflows.Starting Price: $4,175 one-time payment -
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Spacemaker
Autodesk
Spacemaker is an intuitive, collaborative, cloud-based AI software that empowers architects, urban planners, and real estate developers to design high-quality site proposals. It enables users to create 3D massing models of their site and its surroundings using automatic data sets, test site proposals, and receive accurate analyses for over 100 criteria such as noise, wind, sun, and microclimate. Spacemaker streamlines early-stage planning and design workflows with intuitive tools and generative design, allowing for comprehensive feasibility studies and concept design. It offers ready-to-use data sets, smart design tools for fluid 2D and 3D drawing with real-time floor area tallying, and analyses for noise, wind, solar panels, sun, and parking design. Additional features include import and export capabilities with IFC and OBJ formats, automatic area calculations, microclimate analysis, visualization of differences between proposals, apartment generation, view analysis, etc. -
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Optiflow
Lambda Supply Chain Solutions
Optiflow is a supply chain network design platform that enables enterprise to build digital twins (network models) of the their supply chain to design future supply chain networks optimized for cost, service and sustainability. Optiflow is a cloud-based SaaS platform developed by Lambda Supply Chain Solutions to help organizations create Digital Twins for optimizing their supply chains. A Digital Twin is a mathematical model that mirrors an organization’s actual network, behavior, costs, and constraints, enabling businesses to gain an end-to-end view of their supply chain. With Optiflow, users can run WHAT-IF scenarios for various strategic and tactical decisions such as network design, sourcing optimization, and capacity planning. The platform uses the fast Gurobi mathematical solver to deliver quick and precise optimization results, and its simple, intuitive UI makes it easy for teams to collaborate and build models across functions and geographies.Starting Price: $6000 per month per user -
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Capital Harness Designer
Siemens
Capital Wiring Harness Designer enables engineers to create detailed, validated, and manufacturing-ready harness designs. It offers automated part selection routines for components like wires, terminals, seals, and heat-shrink sleeves, facilitating the creation of comprehensive bills of materials. It includes configurable design rule checks to ensure adherence to organizational standards and supports the calculation of manufacturing wire lengths, bundle diameters, and harness weights. Its collaborative design merges functions, allows for the integration of multi-source design inputs, and it manages multiple harness variants from a single design, streamlining the design process. -
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Capital Logic Designer
Siemens
Capital Logic Designer is a powerful graphical and design-management environment for authoring both logical connectivity designs (signals) and physical wiring designs (wires, splices, multicores, etc.). This advanced tool lets engineers quickly and robustly develop logical electrical designs. It supports platform-level electrical design and visualization, simplifying design changes and decision-making through direct navigation between wiring and topology abstractions. The tool automates and controls design tasks using rules-driven device placement and wire routing, with naming conventions, design rule checks, and templates that can be defined and automatically applied. It also provides early indications of wire routing, bundle diameters, and harness complexity, allowing wire lengths to be back-annotated to support accurate voltage-drop, weight, and other types of analyses. -
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VRED
Autodesk
Autodesk VRED is a professional 3D visualization and virtual prototyping software designed to bring complex data to life. It enables users to create high-quality renderings on-premises or in the cloud, visualize, review, and validate designs with ease and accuracy, and collaborate on any device, including virtual reality. VRED helps designers and engineers create product presentations, design reviews, and virtual prototypes using interactive GPU ray tracing and both analytic and cloud-rendering modes. It transforms complex design and engineering datasets into a holistic digital control model that can be used as a single source of truth. Users can access the latest design data anywhere, anytime, for high-quality collaborative review on desktop, mobile, or in VR using various utilities and streaming APIs. VRED supports features like data preparation, virtual prototyping, virtual photography, visual simulation, collaboration, and XR experiences. -
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FactSage
FactSage
FactSage is a comprehensive thermochemical software and database package developed jointly by Thermfact/CRCT (Montreal, Canada) and GTT-Technologies (Aachen, Germany). It integrates thermochemical packages, resulting from over 20 years of collaborative efforts. It comprises a series of information, database, calculation, and manipulation modules that access various pure substances and solution databases. FactSage is utilized by numerous industrial, governmental, and academic users in fields such as materials science, pyrometallurgy, hydrometallurgy, electrometallurgy, corrosion, glass technology, combustion, ceramics, and geology. Users have access to thermodynamic data for thousands of compounds, as well as evaluated and optimized databases for hundreds of solutions, including metals, oxides, slags, mattes, salts, and aqueous solutions. -
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Aibuild
Aibuild
Aibuild is an advanced additive manufacturing (AM) software platform that integrates AI-driven automation, hybrid manufacturing, and real-time monitoring to streamline industrial 3D printing processes. It supports a range of AM technologies, including polymer extrusion, metal DED, WAAM, concrete, and paste extrusion, compatible with both robotic and gantry systems. It combines additive and subtractive manufacturing within a single interface, offering CNC milling capabilities such as drilling, engraving, and contouring. Aibuild's AI assistant autonomously generates ready-to-print toolpaths, while its smart toolpathing adapts to complex geometries, optimizing bead dimensions and thermal behavior for improved print quality. It provides in-process monitoring using RGB and IR cameras to detect defects, ensuring quality assurance through thermal simulations and adaptive infill strategies. -
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Urbiverse
Urbiverse
Urbiverse helps you make smarter strategic decisions about urban mobility and logistics with AI‑driven simulations, synthetic data solutions, real‑time what‑if analysis, and optimized fleet sizing and infrastructure planning. It enables operators to forecast demand based on historical data, events, seasonal trends and real‑time analytics; simulate scenarios to determine the impact of new ride‑sharing, bike‑sharing, cargo‑bike or fleet‑size programs on traffic, user satisfaction, environmental goals, profitability and costs; evaluate financial implications under various tender conditions; optimize fleet distribution, operations management and micromobility parking; and combine real‑time and historical data to allocate resources efficiently across different vehicle types, empowering mobility operators and planners to move from guesswork to data‑driven decisions. Urbiverse processes millions of trips, supports infrastructure planning, and empowers urban fleet planners to test scenarios. -
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enSights.ai
enSights.ai
enSights.ai is your AI‑based asset manager and centralized clean‑energy optimization platform that collects, stores, learns from, and analyzes digital assets in a single real‑time environment. It seamlessly connects directly to inverters, loggers, weather data, SCADA, DAS, revenue‑grade meters, PV, wind, storage batteries, EV charging stations, smart meters, and more, without extra hardware, and integrates across vendors via remote connectors. Utilizing digital‑twin technology, AI/ML algorithms, big‑data ingestion, data scrubbing, live monitoring, performance and financial analytics, maintenance management with ticketing, CRM, billing, financial visibility, and reporting, enSights delivers operational excellence and profitable growth. Users benefit from AI‑recommended diagnostics, root‑cause analysis, automated alerts, SLA tracking, CRM profiles, end‑user interfaces, and EV‑charging support with OCPP 1.6j. -
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GridOS
GE Vernova
GridOS is the first software portfolio designed specifically for grid orchestration, empowering utilities to navigate the energy transition by providing modern tools to orchestrate the complexity of the sustainable energy grid while driving reliability, resilience, and security even amid increasing renewables, DER penetration, severe weather, and cyber threats. It includes a robust suite of interconnected solutions that deliver real-time visibility, optimization, and control across transmission, distribution, markets, and DER ecosystems. GridOS Data Fabric unifies and contextualizes decentralized grid and IT/OT data via metadata cataloging and federation, enabling use cases like outage management, forecasting, grid automation, and violation avoidance without requiring coding expertise. -
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Sapio Scientific Data Cloud
Sapio Sciences
Sapio Scientific Data Cloud is a science-aware scientific data management system that unifies and contextualizes all your laboratory data, assay results, instrument outputs, archives, and third-party ELN/LIMS records into a single, searchable platform without any coding. It supports automated data capture and parsing from over 200 instrument adaptors, semantic search powered by ontologies, built-in charting, and advanced neural-network analytics (ANOVA, best-response curves, 4/5 PL curves, flow-cytometry gating), and AI-driven insights. Secure, role-based access and data archiving keep sensitive information safe, while protein, molecule, plasmid, and system-wide viewers let scientists explore results interactively. Deep integration with Sapio LIMS and ELN systems automatically associates data with samples, experiments, and entities.
