AI-Powered Research Platform for Academics
Poor documentation and lab turnover are brutal for labs.
Capture, Learn, and Leverage everything you do in the lab
For wet, dry, or hybrid life science labs
1 Subscription to Liminal gets you everything for your whole lab:
Liminal: Bioinformatics
Liminal: Wet-Lab
Liminal: Messy files to plot-ready data
Liminal: AI
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Designed specifically for the needs of PIs
- - Simple onboarding
- - Low complexity
- - Student/staff driven adoption
- - Low cost and no pay per seat
More Science. Less Overhead.
Liminal is a software app thats helps capture all the research and management activity in your lab without needing a lab manager.
Designed for busy labs without extra hands or money.
| Concern | Applies to Liminal | What you should know |
| I need a lab manager to use it | ❌ | Liminal is built for PI- or student-run labs with no admin overhead. |
| I don't have time for a new tool | ❌ | Initial setup takes under 30 minutes and is primarily student-led. |
| It won't work with our past data. | ❌ | We integrate papers, notes, shell history, and other existing data. |
| My lab isn't big enough. | ❌ | Liminal is designed for labs as small as 1 person. |
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Labs in academia are losing an enormous portion of their research each year due to:
| Event | Research Lost |
|---|---|
| Poor documentation | 20-25% |
| Student/Staff turnover | 25-35% |
| Poorly designed experiments | 20-25% |
Liminal is a data capture app designed for academic labs to retain and leverage 100% of all the research they do. Whether you are writing a notebook entry, updating the inventory, or adding a sticky note to that finnicky piece of equipment, Liminal captures it all.
Liminal learns from everything you do, becoming your digital lab manager and expert in what you do. Liminal's AI features offer real-time troubleshooting, personalized learning, organization of all lab work, and smart parsing of old data to suggest new research dissemination options.
Does any of this resonate with you?
I'm not even sure where all the data from my lab is. The students probably have it somewhere
I can't implement any lab-wide systems because everyone does things their own way
There's not enough time in the day to get everything done
If my funding runs out, I won't be able to continue my research
If my lab got audited, it would be a mess.
What is Liminal?
Liminal is a software application designed to help academic scientists get more out of their research by automatically contextualizing and connecting every experiment.
- Reduce research waste by storing lab activity in a context-based way
- Eliminate tedius and repetitive work by training your custom AI
- Easily combine data across multiple experiments for analysis
- Keep all relevant data in one spot for all your experiments
- Neatly keep track of all your lab activities
Is the data secure and who owns it?
You own your data and it is stored on secure cloud storage. We are moving towards allowing you to choose your own storage provider, as well as compute provider.
- Export 100% of your data at any time
- Connect to University-owned storage (pending)
- Connect to University-owned compute power (pending)
- Login/authenticate with University login (pending)
Who is Liminal for?
Liminal is for everyone involved in conducting research in an academic lab
- Undergraduate students
- Graduate students
- Postdocs
- Staff/Managers
- Principal investigators
What is the Liminal Advantage?
Double your research output without spending a single extra grant dollar or performing another experiment
- Store every aspect of your research with the full context (AKA metadata) of your lab attached automatically
- Go back to previous research and find the data you need to support your current work
- Your AI learns from everything, becoming your digital lab manager and expert in what you do!
- Onboard new scientists quicker and retain information from leaving scientists
How can I try Liminal?
- Fill out this Google Form if you are interested in joining our waitlist
- Book a short meeting to personally chat with one of our founders