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Holonyx in plain English.
No jargon. Here is what Holonyx does, why it is different, and why the tools most labs use keep breaking in the same places.
Every tool keeps its own copy of your data.
Copies drift apart. Nobody can prove which one is right.
One connected record. Nothing re-typed.
What is a graph?
Think of a subway map — for your science.
A subway map does not list stations in a spreadsheet. It shows the stations and the lines that join them, so you can see how to get from A to B.
A graph does the same for your lab. Each experiment, sample, batch and result is a station. The lines say how they are related. Follow the lines and you can trace any result back to where it came from — in seconds.
Why other systems break
Most lab software stores things in separate boxes.
Copies drift apart
When the same sample lives in three tools, three people update three copies. Sooner or later they disagree, and no one can say which is right.
Every handoff is a gamble
Moving data between tools means exporting, re-typing or overnight file jobs. Each step is a chance for a typo, a delay or a lost detail.
Audits become a scavenger hunt
An inspector asks “where did this result come from?” Answering means opening five systems and stitching the story together by hand.
AI gets a stale picture
An AI assistant can only be as good as what it can see. If the data is scattered or out of date, its answers are too.
Why Holonyx is different
Same lab. Same science. One connected record.
What about “ontology”?
It just means: your lab’s own dictionary and map.
Every lab has its own kinds of things and its own names for them. An ontology writes that down once — what you track, what you call it, how the pieces relate — so software follows your science instead of forcing you into a generic template. Holonyx builds it from how you already work.
Words you will hear
A short glossary.
- Graph
- A way of storing information as things and the connections between them — like a subway map (stations and lines) or a family tree.
- Record
- One item you keep track of: an experiment, a sample, a batch, a test result, a signature.
- Connection
- A link that says how two records relate: “this sample came from that batch.” Technical people call these edges.
- Ontology
- Your lab’s own dictionary and map: what kinds of things you track, what you call them, and how they relate. Holonyx builds yours from how you already work.
- Lineage
- The full family history of a result — every sample, batch, method and person that led to it.
- Audit trail
- A permanent, tamper-evident diary of who changed what, and when.
- Electronic signature
- A digital signature tied to the exact record it approved. Change the record afterward and the mismatch shows.
- Batch record
- The official file describing exactly how one batch of product was made and tested.
- GxP / Part 11
- The rules regulators (like the FDA) set for records and signatures in pharmaceutical work. “Part 11” is the U.S. rule for electronic ones.
Want to see it with your own science?
A short working session — we will show it on your kind of experiment, sample or batch. No slides.