Practices

Labs we help

Our software runs in production for clients including UW Veterinary Care, Maine DOT, and NIEHS. Your first step is a thirty-minute conversation with an expert.

Choose the kind of laboratory you run. SynapticSci works in four practices, for veterinary diagnostic, transportation and materials testing, and government research laboratories, and for any laboratory modernizing how it works. If you know your problem first, start from the Laboratory Operations catalog.

THEN · RESULTS BY HAND Three men stand in a line along a laboratory bench: in front a young man in a white coat writes in an open notebook, and behind him a bald man and a younger man work at tall stands of burettes, flasks and large glass bottles, under hanging lamps and wall shelves.
Digitally rendered from the archive photograph: Same bench and the same three men in the same places, now in white lab coats and gloves; modern burettes on retort stands, labeled reagent bottles, tube racks and two laptops replace the 1942 carboys and glass tubing, and the open notebook stays. NOW · LAPTOPS ON THE BENCHNOW · DIGITALLY RENDERED
Fig. 1 Paul L. Imes, Samuel C. Watkins and George W. Richardson, laboratory technicians at the Tennessee Valley Authority in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, in 1942, and the same bench today.
THEN · 1942 · Library of Congress · NOW · digitally renderedTHEN · 1942 · Alfred T. Palmer, Office of War Information · Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives · public domain by the collection’s statement; the item record carries no rights advisory of its own · loc.gov/item/2017697612 NOW · digitally rendered from the archive photograph above (Gemini 3 Pro Image, 2026-10-14): the room geometry, the camera and the people's positions are the photograph; everything else is generated. Not a photograph.

01Practices

Four practices

Each practice brings together our experience with one kind of laboratory, across every product and service we offer. Open one to see the problems we meet most often there, the work we have delivered, and which tools fit and why.

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  1. Two senior veterinary students in white coats test milk samples at a bench: one draws from a glass bottle with a pipette, the other holds a long pipette over a row of milk bottles; a calendar hangs on the wall behind them.

    Practice

    Veterinary Diagnostics

    Start with

    one submission form or one case workflow

    Problems we see most

    • Typed in twice
    • Hard to see what work is waiting
    • Results take too long
    • Hard to reconstruct a record
    • Software does not fit

    1942, Library of Congress, no known restrictions

  2. A young woman in a work shirt and headscarf writes on a clipboard at a bench of steel test samples while an older woman in dark goggles stamps identification numbers onto a rack of small test bars with a hammer and punch; heavy billet samples lie in the foreground.

    Practice

    Transportation & Materials Testing

    Start with

    one field sheet or one test record

    Problems we see most

    • Typed in twice
    • Systems do not share
    • Hard to reconstruct a record
    • Calibration records disconnected
    • Reports assembled by hand

    1943, Wikimedia Commons, no known restrictions

  3. A woman in a white gown and cap stands at an incubator with its glass door open, holding a culture plate up to the light; a rack of small glass dishes sits on the bench in the foreground.

    Practice

    Government Research Laboratories

    Start with

    one request, from intake to result

    Problems we see most

    • Systems do not share
    • Hard to reconstruct a record
    • Software does not fit
    • Work scattered across requests, samples, and results
    • Workarounds and the few people who know them

    1937, National Library of Medicine, public domain

  4. A nurse-technician in a white cap holds a test tube up to the light at a laboratory bench; racks of tubes and a shelf of reagent bottles surround her.

    Practice

    Laboratory Modernization

    Start with

    the workflow that slows your lab down the most

    Problems we see most

    • Typed in twice
    • Hard to reconstruct a record
    • Software does not fit
    • Data does not add up
    • Repeated manual follow-up
    • Workarounds and the few people who know them

    1942, Library of Congress, no known restrictions

02Start from a problem

Start from the problem instead

If you know the problem before the practice, start from the Laboratory Operations catalog. It sorts every problem into three groups by what goes wrong.

  • Information that does not flow
  • Work that is hard to coordinate
  • Systems that are hard to trust or sustain

Go to Laboratory Operations →

03How to begin

How to begin

Whichever route you take, the next step is a conversation about one form, report, record, or workflow from your laboratory.

We fix the price after the Understand phase, when we have studied your workflow on site and scoped the work with you.

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