Scientific apps for iOS (iPhone / iPad)







Abcam App

It says: The Abcam app features a suite of tools that are handy for any bench scientist. Time multiple experiments, use a molarity calculator or look up how to run a particular part of an application.

License: Free

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BioLegend Flow Cytometry Application

It says: This application provides you with important information about your Flow Cytometers and Fluorochromes. Now you can use BioLegend's Spectra Analyzer quickly and conveniently in the palm of your hand.

License: Free

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BioLegend Lab Tools

It says: This app is full of calculators and converters that should come in very hand in the lab or in the classroom.

License: Free

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Cell Imaging By Invitrogen Corporation

Is says: This mobile app is designed to help you find fluorescent dyes, reagents and protocols for cell biology related fluorescence microscopy applications.

License: Free

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ChemSpider

It says: ChemSpider Mobile allows you to search the ChemSpider chemical database, provided by the Royal Society of Chemistry. Compounds can be searched by structure or by name, and browsed within the app.

License: Free

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CloningBench By Thermo Fisher Scientific

It says: The CloningBench mobile app is designed to provide you with useful and essential tools to help guide your cloning experiments.

License: Free

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EMD Millipore Interactive Histone Modifications

Is says: Through this interactive nucleosome experience, you can explore published histone modifications to obtain relevant bioinformatic data, supporting references, and available research reagents (such as antibodies, ChIP kits, and modifying enzymes) for histone modification and epigenetics research.

License: Free

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! Only available in the US Appstore !



Fluorescence SpectraViewer By Invitrogen Corporation

It says: Plot and compare spectra, check the spectral compatibility for many fluorophores and email the configuration to yourself or others in the lab in a clear printable format.

License: Free

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HPLC Calc by Sigma-Aldrich

It says: The HPLC Method Transfer Calculator does the following: Calculates conditions for transfer of an isocratic or gradient method from one HPLC column to another. Recommends flow rates for analytical columns.

License: Free

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iMolview Lite

It says: iMolview Lite lets you browse and view in 3D protein and DNA structures from Protein Data Bank, and drug molecules from DrugBank.

License: Free

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iOligo EazyPrimer

It says: iOligo EazyPrimer calculates basic PCR primer parameters and identifies secondary structures as you type your oligo’s sequence. The sequence's length cannot exceed 90 mers.

License: Free

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Light Lab By Carl Zeiss AG

It says: With Light Lab by Carl Zeiss Microscopy, you have a fully interactive spectra configuration tool for fluorescence microscopy at your hands. You easily check the spectral compatibility for over 500 fluorophores in the Spectra Viewer module, see the efficiencies in the Imaging Simulator, and email the configuration to yourself or others in the lab as pdf.

License: Free

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MIQE qPCR

It says: Get help from a special team of experts in qPCR while on the move. MIQE - qPCR helps you in reviewing scientific works and checking your own experiments, when qPCR is involved.

License: Free

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NEB Tools

It says: Use Enzyme Finder to select a restriction enzyme by category or recognition sequence, or search by name to find information on any NEB enzyme.

License: Free

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Promega Colony Counter

It says: Is the tedium of squinting over agar plates counting bacterial colonies getting to you? Take the plates out of the lab! No, not literally. Snap a picture with your phone and you can make counting an out-of-lab experience. The Colony Counter app gives you a count estimate you can then manually refine.

License: Free

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QIAGEN App

It says: QIAGEN’s application QIAGEN App is a great resource for iPhone and iPad users that helps to ease and simplify your daily work in the lab. Now with a great new design, this app provides simultaneous multiple lab timers, tables of many commonly used lab buffers and solutions, a variety of conversion and dilution calculators, and supportive multimedia presentations. The iPad app also includes packages for users of QIAcube, QIAgility, QIAxpert and Rotor-Gene Q providing protocol sheets, support documents, tutorials and updates.

License: Free

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Real-time PCR By Thermo Fisher Scientific

It says: The application’s main feature is a real-time PCR handbook covering all aspects of real-time PCR from the basics of how the technology works to data analysis and interpretation

License: Free

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Restriction Enzyme Tool By Promega Corporation

It says: Search for restriction enzymes by name, recognition sequence or overhang. Explore compatible enzymes for double digests quickly, without having to select each individually.

License: Free

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Tydlig - Calculator Reimagined

It says: Tydlig is perfect for calculating everyday things like tips and discounts, showing the entire history and allowing you to change any number with instant updates. For deeper calculations real-time graphing is an excellent way to explore and visualize things like bank interest rates and trigonometric functions.

License: NOT Free

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WolframAlpha

It says: Remember the Star Trek computer? It's finally happening--with Wolfram|Alpha. Building on 25 years of development led by Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram|Alpha has rapidly become the world's definitive source for instant expert knowledge and computation.

License: NOT Free

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