The lab platform built for discovery science, not IT.
Carnation gives small biotech discovery and assay development teams a single place to plan experiments, track reagents, and share results — without spreadsheets, email chains, or waiting on software teams.
ACTIVE EXPERIMENTS
IC50 Compound Panel — Batch 4
ELISA Optimization — IL-6 Detection
HTRF Kinase Selectivity Screen
REAGENT INVENTORY
Anti-IL-6 Ab
3 × 100µg
HRP-conjugate
1 × 1mg
TMB Substrate
4 × 100mL
WHAT CARNATION DOES
Everything a discovery lab needs. Nothing it doesn't.
EXPERIMENT TRACKING
Every assay, every plate, every result — in one place.
Design experiments with protocol templates, assign wells to conditions, and capture results without leaving the browser. No more Excel files emailed across the lab.
REAGENT MANAGEMENT
Know what you have before you run out.
Track lot numbers, expiry dates, storage locations, and quantities. Get low-stock alerts before a critical run is blocked.
PROTOCOL LIBRARY
Institutional knowledge, not in anyone's head.
Capture SOP versions, annotate deviations, and link protocols directly to experiments. New team members get up to speed in hours.
DATA VISUALIZATION
Dose-response, plate heatmaps, and more — built in.
Visualize your data without exporting to GraphPad. Spot outliers, flag failed wells, and annotate curves inline.
CRO COLLABORATION
Send clean data packages to your CRO in one click.
Generate CRO-ready experiment summaries with protocol, plate layout, raw data, and provenance — formatted for external review.
TIMELINE & SCHEDULING
Balance plates and people without a PM.
See every running experiment, upcoming reagent order, and team commitment on one timeline. Catch collisions before they happen.
HOW IT WORKS
From first login to first result, fast.
ONBOARDING
Set up your lab in minutes
Create your team workspace, add your reagent inventory, and import or create protocol templates. Most teams are running their first experiment on day one.
EXPERIMENT DESIGN
Design and assign experiments
Use the visual plate editor to lay out wells, assign conditions, and link protocols. Assign experiments to team members with deadline visibility.
DATA CAPTURE
Capture data and review results
Enter raw readings, import plate reader exports, or connect your instrument. Carnation generates dose-response curves and flags outliers automatically.
REPORTING
Share with your CRO or leadership
Export a clean summary — protocol, plate map, raw data, and analysis — in one click. No reformatting, no lost context.
WHO CARNATION IS FOR
Built for the scientists doing the work.
PRIMARY
Discovery Biology & Assay Dev Teams
Small biotech teams moving fast from target identification to lead optimization. You need a system that keeps up with the science, not one that requires a PhD in IT.
- 2–20 scientists
- 96- and 384-well workflows
- Multiple assay formats (ELISA, HTRF, biochemical)
- Active CRO partnerships
SECONDARY
Contract Research Organizations
CROs who need to receive structured experiment briefs, track deliverables, and return clean data packages to sponsors. Carnation makes the handoff effortless.
- Multi-sponsor project tracking
- Standardized result exports
- Client-readable reports
TERTIARY
Academic Core Facilities
Shared core facilities and pharma-partnered academic labs that need rigor and reproducibility without enterprise IT overhead.
- Multi-PI experiment management
- Publication-quality data records
- Low-overhead deployment
< 1 day
Median time to first experiment
40%
Reduction in experiment prep overhead
100%
Protocol traceability, by design
0
IT tickets required to get started
WHAT TEAMS SAY
Scientists who shipped more science.
We used to track our assay plate layouts in a shared Google Sheet with color codes. It was a mess. Carnation gave us our Friday afternoons back.
Senior Scientist
Assay Development, Series A Biotech
Our CRO partners always asked for the same information in the same format. Now I just send them a Carnation export link. No more PowerPoint cleanup.
Research Associate
Discovery Biology, Oncology
We lost a whole dataset because a postdoc left and the protocol lived in their head and a personal notebook. That can't happen on Carnation.
Lab Head
Pharmacology, Preclinical Stage