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Closing the loop between scientific insight and experimental action
Where evidence becomes experiments—and every result strengthens the next.
Thermo Fisher Connect Discover Software powered from ASCEND™ by BenchSci unites with the Thermo Fisher Connect Enterprise Platform to close the long‑standing gap between digital reasoning and real laboratory action. Connect Discover software surfaces evidence‑backed hypotheses and new biological pathways to explore, while Connect Enterprise platform turns those ideas into executable methods and coordinated lab workflows. Results then flow back to guide the next decision.
The result is a lab-in-the-loop approach that helps support fewer redundant experiments and more confident scientific decisions.
See how Connect Discover software strengthens your D-M-T-L cycle—and stay informed with the latest updates.
Why Connect Discover AI lab software
Scientific teams are generating ideas faster than ever, but turning those ideas into action remains slow, manual, and fragmented. ASCEND by BenchSci often provides powerful hypotheses, but scientists must still manually translate insight into experimental plans, losing context and time along the way.
Connect Discover software helps close this gap by embedding AI-driven experimental design directly alongside the Connect Enterprise execution layer, helping to enabling faster and more seamless execution from idea to outcome.
Key benefits of experimental design software
Connect Discover software helps R&D teams with:
- Evidence-based, purpose-driven design: Connect Discover software helps anchor every experimental protocol in biomedical evidence, including open and closed publications, patents, and proprietary data so teams can act earlier with greater confidence and clarity.
- Seamless transition from insight to execution: Methods flow directly into Connect Enterprise to orchestrate workflows, instruments, ELN/LIMS, and inventory, preserving scientific intent while reducing manual translation and rework.
- A system that continuously learns: Results feed back into the intelligence layer, capturing institutional knowledge and improving each cycle, enabling more continuous, collaborative, and insightful discovery.
- Measurable impact for leaders: Potential15–30% reduction in redundant experiments, accelerating go/no-go decisions, while starting from a stronger evidence base that improves capital efficiency.
How Connect Discover software works
Connect Discover software links ASCEND’s biological reasoning with Connect Enterprise platform's lab orchestration, helping scientists move from hypothesis to experiment and back again, without losing scientific context.
Explore how Connect Discover software works:
- Scientists begin by asking research questions in natural language.
- Connect Discover interprets the query, grounds scientific terms to a structured knowledge graph, and retrieves relevant insights from publications, datasets, and internal research.
- Every result is supported by traceable evidence, allowing scientists to explore hypotheses with confidence.
- Researchers can refine their questions to explore relationships between genes, pathways, and disease mechanisms.
- Results are presented in structured formats such as tables making it easy to compare candidate targets side by side.
- An integrated evidence view links each insight to supporting publications and data sources, while internal experimental data can also be surfaced to provide additional context from prior work.
- Once a target is identified, Connect Discover helps scientists move directly into experiment planning.
- The system surfaces relevant experimental methods and protocols, including structured details such as steps, parameters, and required materials.
- This reduces the need to search across multiple sources and helps scientists start from proven approaches.
- Selected protocols can be transferred into Connect Enterprise, where they integrate with existing tools and systems.
- Protocols populate electronic lab notebooks (ELN) with steps, parameters, and reagents
- Reagent lists connect to inventory and sourcing systems
- Scientists can see what is available internally and what needs to be ordered
This helps reduce delays, manual work, and duplicate purchases.
- Experiments are organized into structured workflows, including sample preparation, assay steps, and analysis.
- These workflows can connect to laboratory automation systems, enabling:
- Task scheduling and workflow visualization
- Instrument integration and execution
- End-to-end sample tracking
- Scientists can monitor progress while automation handles repetitive tasks.
- When experiments are complete, results and associated metadata are automatically captured. Data is recorded in the ELN. Experimental outcomes are fed back into the knowledge system.
- This creates a continuous learning cycle, where each experiment helps strengthen future research decisions.
Accelerating the Design-Make-Test-Learn cycle in drug discovery
By connecting insight, design, execution, and results, Connect Discover software supports a more efficient and informed approach to scientific discovery.
Unlike standalone AI tools, Connect Discover software grounds every insight into scientific evidence and connects it directly to real laboratory workflows. This helps ensure that insights are not only meaningful, but actionable.
Who is it for
Connect Discover software supports early-stage research and experimental design, prior to execution and data capture within validated laboratory workflows. It's designed for:
Scientists
Designing evidenced-based experiments more confidently.
Research teams
Reducing redundant work and improving workflow efficiency.
R&D leaders
Driving clearer decisions and improving visibility across programs.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
AI for drug discovery software uses artificial intelligence to analyze scientific data, generate hypotheses, and guide experimental design, helping researchers accelerate the discovery process.
Connect Discover software is an example of this type of software, using a knowledge graph for scientific research to connect biological relationships across publications, datasets, and internal data. This enables scientists to generate evidence-based insights and link them directly to laboratory workflows for more effective experimentation.
Connect Discover software supports AI for drug discovery by combining knowledge graph-based scientific reasoning with integrated laboratory workflows.
By structuring relationships between genes, pathways, diseases, and experimental data, the platform helps scientists move from hypothesis to experiment using connected tools and real-world evidence, improving confidence in experimental design and execution.
Unlike standalone AI lab software, Connect Discover software connects insights directly to execution by integrating with lab systems, workflows, and automation platforms.
Experimental design software helps scientists plan better experiments using evidence-based approaches, reducing redundant work and improving the quality of results.
Connect Discover software works together with the Thermo Fisher Connect Enterprise Platform to connect scientific insight with laboratory execution. Connect Discover software generates evidence-based hypotheses and experimental designs using AI, while Connect Enterprise translates those designs into executable workflows across lab systems, including ELN, LIMS, instruments, and inventory.
This integration enables a seamless flow from hypothesis to experiment, helping to ensure that scientific intent is preserved while reducing manual effort and improving efficiency. Experimental results are then fed back into Connect Discover software to continuously improve future research decisions.
Connect Discover software is intended for pre-GxP research and experimental design, prior to execution in validated laboratory workflows.
For Research Use Only. Not for use in diagnostic procedures.