The Tetra Benchling Connector is a standalone, containerized application that listens to a Benchling Events subscription and uploads the events and related resources to the Tetra Data Platform (TDP). Benchling is a cloud-based informatics platform designed for life sciences research and development. It provides tools for managing and analyzing biological data, facilitating collaboration among scientists, and scientific workflow management.

Architecture

The following diagram shows an example Tetra Benchling Connector workflow:

The Tetra Benchling Connector allows Benchling Events and associated resources to be uploaded to the TDP. This integration is accomplished by subscribing to actions or changes of interest within Benchling. The Connector is then notified when subscribed events occur, retrieves the events, downloads the applicable resources, and uploads them to the TDP. By pairing this functionality with the existing, pipeline-based push integration (Tetra Benchling Pipeline), you can build bidirectional workflows between Benchling and the TDP.

Benchling delivers its events over Amazon EventBridge, and the Connector requires Benchling-side configuration as well as specific AWS resources to work. TetraScience provides the following AWS CloudFormation templates to simplify provisioning the AWS resources: benchling-event-bus.yaml and benchling-sqs-queue.yaml.

For more information, see Getting Started with Events in the Benchling documentation.

Prerequisites

Tetra Data Platform (TDP) v3.6.x or higher
Benchling Notebook
Tenant Admin privileges in Benchling to set up event subscriptions
AWS role with sufficient permissions to create required resources
(Optional) Tetra Hub. You can deploy the Tetra Benchling Connector as a standalone service on the AWS Cloud or to a Tetra Hub (for on-premises networking requirements). If deployed to a Tetra Hub, internal networking/firewalls rules to allow communication between the Connector and the Hub must be configured. For more information, contact your customer success manager (CSM).

User Guides

For more information about how to install and use the Benchling Connector, see the latest user guide:

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