Inventory

Know what's in the freezer before you open it.

Reagents, samples, plasmid stocks and consumables, with the freezer, box and slot they live in. Scan a bottle to add it, and let the protocol tell you what to gather.

Every tube has a place

Buildings, rooms, freezers, racks, boxes and slots, named the way your lab names them. Take a tube, take some, move it or mark it used up; the history keeps who did what. Plasmid stocks link to their map and Addgene number.

Freezer boxesTake · move · used upPlasmid stocksGlycerol stocksHistory
−80 °C #1 · Box 7

Scan a bottle to add it

Point the phone at the barcode a bottle already carries, or use a USB scanner at the desk. Gelly reads the CAS or catalogue number, finds the compound in PubChem, and tells you if the lab already has it.

Phone cameraUSB scannerCAS and catalogue numbersPubChem
▥Barcode read · CAS 367-93-1 · lot 21B4Scan
IPTG · isopropyl β-D-1-thiogalactopyranosideC9H18O5S · 238.3 g/mol · found in PubChemAlready in your lab: 1 bottle, opened · Shelf B2

The protocol knows what it needs

Before a run, Gelly checks what the protocol needs against what the lab has, and walks you to it freezer by freezer. Ask by voice at the bench: “where is the IPTG?” or “how much kanamycin is left?”

Have vs needFreezer walkVoice: where is…
Before you start · sfGFP expression · run 3
  • LB mediumMedia shelf · 2 bottles
  • Kanamycin 50 mg/mL−20 °C #2 · Box A · slot 4
  • IPTG 1 M−20 °C #2 · Box C · slot 14 · 3 tubes left
  • Glycerol stock · BL21(DE3) pET-sfGFP−80 °C #1 · Box 7 · slot 22
  • Ni-NTA resinNot in your lab · added to the order list
Walks you freezer by freezer. Ticks go into the run's log.

Materials from a paper, checked against your lab

When you read a paper in Gelly, its materials are listed against your inventory: what you have, where, and what to order. A protocol generated from the paper links straight to your bottles.

Paper materialsOrder list
Materials in Lu et al. 2022 · against your lab
✓Terephthalic acid standardHave · Shelf C1
✓pET-28a vectorHave · −20 °C #1
!Ni-NTA resinOrder

Start from the list you already have

Import your reagent spreadsheet. Rows are matched by name or CAS, duplicates fold into one item, and places are created as they appear. The last bottle of something puts it on the order list.

Excel and CSVOrder listReorder levels
Xreagents_2026.xlsx · 214 rowsImport
Read from your list198 substances matched by name or CAS · 11 rows folded into existing items · 5 to checkPlaces from the list are created as you go: “−20 °C #2 / Box C”.

Equipment, booked from the step that uses it

Devices stay in Lab Equipment with their status and opening hours. Book the plate reader from the protocol step that needs it.

StatusOpening hoursBooking
⚙Plate reader · Room 2.14
free until 14:00 · booked Thu 14:00–15:30 by AK
Book
⚙Shaking incubator · 18 °C
in use · opening hours 7–22
Status