Secure, Flexible Collaboration For Research Teams - Solved.

Accelerate teamwork, maintain compliance, and reduce friction across your research workflows. IGOR equips scientific teams with secure, purpose-built tools to collaborate effectively and meet industry regulations.

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Built for Real Collaboration - Not Just Shared Access

In research, one-size-fits-all rarely works.
One team might need tightly controlled SOPs and standardized workflows. Others are managing sensitive client inventories or coordinating with collaborators halfway across the world.

And yet, most ELN and LIMS platforms try to force everyone into one rigid, bloated workspace setup - leading to friction, confusion, and poor adoption.

IGOR was built differently: with flexible, self-contained Collaboration Workspaces that adapt to your teams, projects, and clients - not the other way around.

How it works

One Platform, Many Ways to Work.

IGOR was designed from the ground up with real-world research collaboration in mind, supporting secure, flexible teamwork across departments and external partners, without compromising usability for individual teams.

Create Dedicated Teams

Organizations create dedicated Team workspaces that mirror real-world structures - like departments, research sites, or external collaboration projects.

Customize Workspaces

Each Team configures its environment independently - from experiment metadata capture and experiment templates to SOPs and inventory setup.
No one-size-fits-all required!

Control Access with Flexible Roles & Permissions

Assign users a role, then fine-tune exactly what they can see and do - with granular permissions that are adaptable to each Team’s structure and needs.

Maintain Clear Boundaries

Experiments, Templates, and SOPs stay organized and neatly contained within the Team they were created in, while inventory repositories can be shared or kept team-specific - enabling focused collaboration with clean boundaries to protect sensitive data from accidental cross-access.

Cross-Team Collaboration is Easy

Teams can choose to share inventory repositories or transfer SOPs and templates to other groups as needed. Collaborators can be added in just a few clicks, with easily adjustable permissions to ensure each user has the right level of access for their role. And when a project wraps up, removing collaborators is just as simple - their access ends immediately, while all contributions remain securely stored, searchable, and available to your team.
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Retain Institutional Knowledge

IGOR ensures that critical data, experiments, and documentation never walk out the door. All work is securely stored, searchable, and fully traceable - even after team members leave.

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Smooth Knowledge Transfer

Whether it’s a new hire, a department shift, or a cross-site transfer, IGOR makes it easy to pick up where someone left off. No digging through old folders or tracking down missing files.

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Preserve Research Context

Linked documentation, results, notes, protocols, and inventory records keep everything connected - so contributors can see the full picture, not just the final data.

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Configure Workspaces Your Way

Every team, department, or client can have a workspace tailored to their exact needs - from metadata fields and templates to user permissions and inventory structure. There’s no need to force a one-size-fits-all setup.

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Keep Roles and Permissions Flexible

Assign users to multiple team workspaces and customize their access based on what they need to do in each - from full access and editing rights to view-only access. Roles are easy to adjust as projects evolve.

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Collaborate Without Compromising Security

Each workspace keeps experiment data and SOPs strictly separated, ensuring IP-sensitive information stays contained unless explicitly shared to reduce the risk of accidental data exposure.

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Effortless Collaboration with Clients, CROs, and Research Partners

As collaboration with external research institutions, clients, and Contract Research Organizations (CROs) becomes increasingly important, challenges like secure data transfer and real-time sharing persist.

​​​​IGOR addresses these challenges with its innovative design and advanced user access and permission structure, which enable secure, real-time data sharing with external partners and CROs.

Collaborators can seamlessly contribute data, SOPs, and materials to your workspace as needed, while ensuring your data and sensitive information remain secure.

Customize User Access Across Workspaces

Bringing someone new into a collaboration project? It’s quick and simple.

You can invite them in seconds and assign exactly the access they need. Each Workspace manages its users independently, so collaborators can only see and access the Workspaces they’ve been added to - helping protect sensitive data by default.

Roles can be customized to match each person’s responsibilities, giving you full control over what they can view, edit, or manage on a workspace-by-workspace basis.
As teams evolve or priorities shift, users can be added or removed at any time - keeping collaboration secure, organized, and running smoothly at every stage.

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Fine-Tune Permissions to Meet your Project Needs

Each Collaboration Workspace in IGOR features highly customizable access controls and user permissions, all managed effortlessly through the intuitive Team Dashboard.​

Admins can easily delegate tasks related to Workspace management and fine-tune permissions to fit their team's specific needs. That includes defining who can author, witness, and approve SOPs or Lab Notebook Entries, as well as managing workspace customization and controlling access to research data.​

It eliminates the need for manual oversight or workarounds, even in complex company structures where roles, data access, and responsibilities vary from team to team.

Ready to make collaboration feel easy again?

See how IGOR makes scientific collaboration secure, flexible, and frustration-free.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Can we add external collaborators or CRO partners to our IGOR workspace without risking exposure of sensitive internal data?

Yes! In modern research, collaboration often extends beyond the lab - to CROs, clients, and academic partners - and that means data and IP security can’t be an afterthought.

In IGOR, each collaboration can take place within a dedicated, self-contained Workspace, which serves as its own access controlled environment. Every Workspace has its own secure space for experiments, SOPs, templates, inventory, and documentation, and can be fully configured by the research group using it to reflect their specific workflows and needs.

IGOR provides complete administrative control when onboarding external collaborators, clients, or CRO partners. You can invite them to specific Workspaces, assign custom roles, and adjust permissions to define exactly what they can view or edit. Access can be tailored collaborator by collaborator - determining which Workspaces they can see, whether they can contribute experiment data, and their level of access to SOPs, templates, and inventory repositories associated with that Workspace.

When a project wraps up, you can remove a collaborator’s access instantly. Their permissions are withdrawn right away, but all their work stays safely stored and linked to the project’s history. It’s a simple, reliable way to close out collaborations without risking your internal data or losing valuable research records.

In short, IGOR enables effortless, secure collaboration across internal teams and external partners - without compromising data integrity, confidentiality, or control.

How does IGOR support knowledge transfer between research teams?

IGOR keeps all experiments, SOPs, templates, and related documentation organized in structured, searchable Workspaces. When staff transition between roles or projects move between departments or sites, information stays complete, connected, and accessible, so the next team can pick up immediately without recreating work or tracking down files.

For example, when a project transitions from Process Development to Manufacturing, team members from the Manufacturing team can be granted access to relevant historic experiment data to review and understand important details and context. Team Admins can share relevant SOPs, templates, or inventories directly between Workspaces, to help with a structured handoff and to reduce the risk of errors or data loss.

This structure preserves data integrity, supports reproducibility, and prevents accidental exposure of unrelated or confidential information.

Can IGOR replace shared folders and spreadsheets for team projects?

Yes! that’s one of its main advantages. IGOR centralizes experimental notes, data files, and inventory information in one platform.

As team members or collaborators create experiments, add inventory items, assign samples and reagents, upload data, or share SOPs and templates, that information becomes available to other team members in real time - so long as they have the appropriate permissions.

This means researchers can work hand in hand from a single, organized workspace  without bottlenecks or friction, and without ever needing to send files through email, shared folders, or external tools.

Is IGOR suitable for remote or hybrid research teams?

Yes. As a cloud-based ELN + LIMS platform, IGOR is accessible from anywhere, whether your team is in the same lab, across campus, or around the world. Remote users can log in, collaborate, and stay synced in real time, with full data security and and access control based on their assigned permissions.