For bench scientists

Everything you did, and how it connects.

Bourn records your lab work as you go, from the materials and the experiment to the files, the analysis, the figures and the thesis, each linked to the step before. Months later, you can still see how a result was made.

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Study

Drug response in HeLa cells

Experiment

Dataset

Analysis run

Result

Report

Western blot

12 Oct 2026

SDS-PAGE, rev. 3

anti-β-actin · A23

Blot scans

12 files · TIFF

Quantification

Run #14 · 4 nodes

Verified

Figure 2B

Table 1

ratiodecr.Control1.00Treated0.5842 %

ThesisChapter 3

3.3 Results

Figure 2B. Protein levels.

Levels fell by 42 % in

treated cells (Fig. 2B).

Study

Drug response in HeLa cells

Experiment

Western blot

12 Oct 2026

SDS-PAGE, rev. 3

anti-β-actin · A23

Dataset

Blot scans

12 files · TIFF

Analysis run

Quantification

Run #14 · 4 nodes

Verified

Result

Figure 2B

Table 1

ratiodecr.Control1.00Treated0.5842 %

Report

ThesisChapter 3

3.3 Results

Figure 2B. Protein levels.

Levels fell by 42 % in

treated cells (Fig. 2B).

Everything on the shelf, with its lot

Materials as a sheet, one tab per kind, imported from Excel. Every freezer, rack and box is drawn where it really sits, with its history.

Your bench record, step by step

Each experiment is a protocol on a given day, filled in at the bench or afterwards, whenever suits you. Amounts follow the number of reactions, tubes come straight from your boxes, and a value that differs from the protocol asks why. After Mark done, every change is an amendment with its reason, and the printed bench sheet leads back to the record.

Your files stay where you put them

Files stay on your disk or the lab server; Bourn records each one by its path and fingerprint instead of copying it. Attach a file to the experiment that made it, and see everything that uses it: runs, Studies and reports.

Analysis you can check again

Draw the analysis from nodes. Every run keeps its recipe, and Verify re-runs it on the same files to tell you whether the results still match.

Results that remember, kept in a Study

Keep the figures, tables and values that matter in a Study. A re-run offers a new version instead of swapping it in, and each Result carries its Facts and where it is used.

Write the thesis where the work is

Type @ to cite from your reference library. Link a Methods sentence to the experiment it describes, place figures straight from your Studies, and every number stays tied to the run that produced it.

Works with the AI you already use

Connect Claude or another AI app to Bourn. It can read your protocols and runs and propose workflows. Bourn asks before it reads your notes, and never lets it invent a value.

Plugins

Nodes and tools come from plugins. Bourn installs and updates them for you.

Start from a tested protocol

A free catalogue in English and 繁體中文, adapted from openly licensed sources. Copy one, link your own materials, and it's yours.