Purpose-Built for Tissue Culture Labs

Lab Management ThatActually Works

Track every culture with complete lineage. Manage media recipes and batches. Control contamination. Print QR labels. All in one place.

No credit card required. Free tier available.

Tissue culture jars containing young plantlets on a clean lab bench

Visualise Every Culture's Journey

Track complete lineage from mother plant through every subculture, passage, and stage change.

MP-001 · Paulownia tomentosa
CUL-001 · P1
CUL-002 · P1
CUL-003 · P1
CUL-004 · P2
CUL-005 · P2
CUL-006 · P2
CUL-007 · P2
Mother Plant Multiplication Subculture

Click any culture to see full details, history, and observations. Navigate the entire lineage with our interactive tree view.

Stop Managing Your Lab in Spreadsheets

Spreadsheets weren't designed for the complexity of tissue culture. Here's what you're missing.

With Spreadsheets
With MeristemLab
Manual copy-paste to track subcultures
One-click subculture with auto-generated lineage
No way to visualise parent-child relationships
Interactive lineage tree with click-through navigation
Handwritten labels, prone to errors
QR labels auto-generated, scan with your phone
Can't link contamination to media batches
Full traceability: culture → media → contamination
No audit trail of changes
Complete change history with who, what, when
Single user, no collaboration
Multi-user with roles and permissions

Your Lab, Your Way

Every lab is different. MeristemLab adapts to how you work — not the other way around.

Custom Terminology

Call things what your team calls them. Rename "cultures" to "explants", "media" to "growth medium".

Culture →Explant
Mother Plant →Stock Plant
Stage →Phase

Custom Stages

Define your own culture stages with custom names and colours.

Initiation
Multiplication
Rooting

Custom Fields

Add any data points you need. Text, numbers, dates, dropdowns — on any entity.

Auxin concentration
Light hours per day
Callus formation %

Your Terminology

Rename entities, define your own stages and dropdown values, and add custom fields so forms match how your lab works.

When contamination detected →
Alert team + quarantine culture
When passage > 10 →
Flag for review

Everything You Need, Nothing You Don't

Built specifically for tissue culture. Every feature exists because a real lab needed it.

Complete Lineage

Track every culture from initiation through subcultures. Interactive tree view shows parent-child relationships and passage numbers.

QR Labels & Scanning

Auto-generate labels for any printer. Scan with your phone to instantly access culture details, record observations, or start a subculture.

Media Management

Store recipes and prepare batches with expiry dates. Record stock solutions and link every culture to the batch it started on.

Contamination Control

Log contamination events with type and severity, linked to the culture and media batch involved, and see rates over time.

Production Planning

Schedule subcultures, track orders and production batches, and assign tasks so the team knows what needs attention today.

Analytics & Dashboards

Dashboards for culture health, contamination rates and production throughput, plus CSV export of your records.

Team Management

Invite team members with role-based access. An audit trail records key changes to cultures and mother plants.

Universal Scanner

One scanner for everything — cultures, equipment, chemicals, locations. Auto-detects entity type and shows relevant quick actions.

Inventory Tracking

Track chemicals, consumables and equipment with reorder levels and maintenance dates. Know where everything is stored.

Gloved technician placing a culture jar on a lab bench in warm sunlight

Up and Running in Minutes

No installation, no complex setup. Start tracking cultures today.

1

Create Your Account

Sign up free in 30 seconds. No credit card. Add your team on any paid plan.

2

Configure Your Lab

Set up your stages, terminology, and custom fields. Import existing data or start fresh.

3

Start Tracking

Add your first cultures, print QR labels, and manage your lab with confidence.

Secure by Default

Row-level security on every table

Cloud-Based

No installation, works on any device

Mobile First

Use at the bench on your phone

Always Improving

New features shipped regularly

Built for Labs of All Sizes

From a single shelf to rows of production racks — MeristemLab scales with you, from your first hundred cultures to your millionth.

Stainless steel shelving in a tissue culture lab, rows of jars lit by grow lights

Hobbyists & Students

Free tier with core features for personal projects and learning.

  • Culture tracking with full lineage
  • QR code label printing
  • Media recipe management
Most Popular

Research Labs

Full features for academic and research operations.

  • Unlimited cultures and media
  • Equipment and inventory management
  • Contamination analytics and reporting

Commercial Labs

Team features for commercial micropropagation.

  • Multi-user with role permissions
  • Customer and order management
  • Production planning and forecasting

Ready to Streamline Your Lab?

Start managing cultures, tracking lineage and planning production in one place.

Get Started Free

No credit card required. Questions? Email hello@meristemlab.com