Benchling has launched an initiative to standardize instrument data conversion in the scientific community at the Bio-IT World Conference. The company s efforts are twofold: Benchling is contributing to industry standards as an active member of the Allotrope Foundation Partner Network (APN) and is also creating a library of open source converters that format instrument-generated data to the Allotrope Simple Model (ASM) standard to help organizations to put these standards into practice .