Updated Articles

  1. Round-Up 2025: What's new in the ASCEND platform

    A look back at key release highlights across 2025! Expanded data source coverage in Conversational AI (CAI) assistant Clinical trial data from clinicaltrials.gov: Clinical trial results are essential for building a compreh...
  2. Round-Up 2023: What's new in the ASCEND platform

    A look back at some exciting features that we built in 2023 to empower scientists to design more successful experiments We expanded our data coverage Throughout 2023, we added over 8 million products, 1.7 million publications , and 34...
  3. Round-Up 2024: What's new in the ASCEND platform

    A look back at some exciting features that we built in 2024 to empower scientists to design more successful experiments We expanded our data coverage In 2024 we focused on increasing our coverage of closed access journal articles. Wit...
  4. What are third-party or independent data sources?

    ASCEND has the world’s most powerful and comprehensive biomedical experiment-focused dataset. In addition to our publication corpus, our database is further enriched by a vast library of scientifically trusted third-party sources to surfac...
  5. Overview of ASCEND by BenchSci Platform

    ASCEND is specifically designed for preclinical disease biology research The platform is built by scientists for scientists to unravel disease biology, elevate decision-making, uncover novelty, and increase experimental productivity. ...
  6. How comprehensive is BenchSci's database?

    It's big. And it's only getting bigger! BenchSci has the world’s most powerful and comprehensive biomedical experiment-focused dataset and ontology, built using proprietary machine learning models that understand experiments like a Ph.D. sci...
  7.  Quick Start Guide: Selector

    Up to 50% of reagents are unsuitable and fail to produce reproducible results. Within the ASCEND by BenchSci platform , our Selector application helps scientists streamline the selection of suitable reagents and model systems and avo...
  8. How do I reference ASCEND for a paper or presentation?

    We are happy to hear that the ASCEND by BenchSci platform has been useful for your research! Users can reference ASCEND the same way you would reference any website or database using your citation style of choice such as MLA  or APA ...
  9. Q3 2024: What's new in Selector

    We are excited to announce new enhancements in the platform between July and September 2024 Over the past three months, we have added data from over 1.3M   publications , 1.6M experimental use cases , and 468K reagents . ...
  10. Round-Up 2024: What's new in Selector

    A look back at some exciting features that we built in 2024 to empower scientists to design more successful experiments We expanded our data coverage In 2024 we focused on increasing our coverage of closed access journal art...