Cellindex

An electronic lab notebook
that understands cells.

Not a generic document tool with a science skin. Cellindex is built around the realities of cell culture — passages, plate maps, reagent lots — by people who have worked the bench.

Built for cell biology

Cultures, passages, plates and reagents are first-class entities — not afterthoughts bolted onto a word processor.

Full audit trail

Every entry is signed, timestamped, and traceable back to the exact passage and reagent lot. The record is the result.

Free for academics

Quality record-keeping shouldn't be a budget line. The academic tier is free, permanently, with no feature gates.

A longer plan

The ELN is the foundation, not the destination. We're on a deliberate path to becoming a contract research organisation.

Why this exists

Science that can be checked is science that can be trusted.

The reproducibility problem in cell biology isn't just a statistical artefact — it starts in the notebook. Unlabelled reagent lots. Passage numbers recalled from memory. Protocols that live on a whiteboard.

We are building the tools to close that gap. Systematically, from the record up.

How we work

Reproducibility first

If a result cannot be re-derived from the record, it did not happen. Every feature decision flows from this.

Open by default

Your data belongs to you — full export, open formats, no lock-in by design.

Earn trust slowly

We are building toward GCP-readiness before anyone requires it of us. Compliance is not a box to tick.

Software that disappears

The best lab tools fade into the background. We measure success by how rarely scientists think about the software.

2024
Foundation
2025 Q1
ELN — early access
2025 Q3
ELN — general availability
2026
Quality Management System
2027
GCP readiness
2028
CRO services
Path to CRO

A deliberate, public roadmap.

Cellindex is not a research tools company that might one day pivot to services. Becoming a contract research organisation is the plan from day one — the ELN is the foundation.

We publish this roadmap openly because the scientific community deserves to know where we are heading before they build workflows around our products.

Full roadmap →

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Free for academic labs. No credit card required.