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 Done
2025 Q1
ELN — early access Active
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.