Research audit trail

A research audit trail for collaborative biotech teams

Molecule Labs records each file your team uploads along with who added it and when. Months later, when a funder or partner asks how a result came about, you can show them its history instead of piecing it together from inboxes and old folders.

Two surfaces, one record

A confidential workspace and a public page for the same Lab

Files you mark confidential, such as drafts and internal notes, stay with the people you add to the Lab and are encrypted before they reach Molecule’s servers. Alongside this, a public project page shows a timestamped record of the Lab’s files. Confidential files appear there by title and description only, and their contents stay closed.
A lab's files beside its public record: a confidential file added today at 14:02 appears in both, dated, under the category Science.

How the trail builds itself

Molecule Labs records each upload as it happens, so nobody on the team has to keep a separate log.

01

Upload a file to the Lab

Molecule Labs records the file's unique identifier, the time it was uploaded and the member who uploaded it.

02

Upload a new version

Uploading the file again creates a new version, and the file's page lists every earlier version with the date and who made it.

03

Change who has access

Every role change, including adding or removing a member, is recorded with the time it happened.

04

Read the history

The Lab's activity feed lists each change to its files in order, so the history is ready when someone asks for it.

What a research audit trail is made of

Each part of the record is captured while your team works in the Lab, accumulating while the work happens.

A unique identifier for every version

Each version of a file carries a content hash, a fingerprint computed from the file's contents. Track how a document grows, changes, and never lose old information.

A timestamp and version number

Each version records when it was uploaded and which version number it became, so the order in which things happened is part of the record.

A history of who had access

Access is granted and removed explicitly, and every role given or taken back is recorded with its date, so you can show who could open the Lab's files at a given time as well as what each file contained.

A record you can read from your own systems

The same history is available through the Labs API, so your team can pull it into the systems it already reports from and keep its own copy.

Who had access

Various levels of access

Everyone in a Lab holds a role as owner, contributor or viewer. An AI agent joins the same way and is marked as an agent. When it signs in with its own account, its uploads are recorded under its name. Any membership can be permanent or set to expire, and the owner can revoke it at any time.
Who had access to a lab over time: an admin and a contributor with no end date, an agent until 6 January, and a viewer whose access was taken back today.

Where it helps

Molecule Labs keeps a lasting record of what your team produced and who had access to it. That record is useful when a partner or funder runs diligence on your work, when a project moves from one team to another, and any time someone needs to rely on a result they didn't see produced.

What this is not

Molecule Labs isn't a validated system for regulated manufacturing, and using it doesn't on its own make you compliant with any specific regulation. If your work needs a qualified, validated GxP environment, you need a different kind of product.

Frequently asked questions

A research audit trail is the record of who changed what, and when, during a piece of research. On Molecule, every file gets a content hash and a timestamp when it is uploaded, every change in who has access is recorded, and the lab lists what was added, updated and removed.

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Tell us who will need to validate your results and what they will need to see, and we'll walk you through how a Lab records it.