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For iGEM competition teams

Free for your whole iGEM team, all competition year

Keep every protocol, sequence and result in one place, from your first experiment to your final wiki. Lab Thread is free for iGEM competition teams, however many of you there are.

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See how the University of Oxford team used it

Free access for your whole team

iGEM runs on a small budget and a big to-do list. So we make Lab Thread free for competition teams, on our full academic plan.

Free for the whole competition year

Every team member included, however many of you there are

The full academic plan, free: electronic lab notebook (ELN), laboratory information management system (LIMS), molecular biology tools, project management and data uploads

One shared workspace across every lab and every team member

The free academic plan includes every module. It does not include the enhanced storage or features of our paid plans.

Sign up by Monday for free onboarding support

To mark the iGEM Grand Jamboree in Paris (13 to 16 November 2026), sign up with code iGEM2026 before the Jamboree closes, and we will add free onboarding support for your team, ready for whenever you start your project. We will help you set up your projects, protocols and templates, so your team begins organised.

The Grand Jamboree closes on Monday 16 November 2026, so this offer ends at 23:59 that day.

At the Jamboree? Come and find us at stand S01.

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Built for a fast-moving project

One place for everything

Protocols, notebook entries, sequences and results live together, organised by project, so nothing gets lost between labs, team members or late nights.

Sequences next to the science

Link your plasmid and oligo files to your notebook entries and edit them live, so there is only ever one current version, not five slightly different ones.

Data in context

Upload your CSV and Excel files and keep your files right next to the experiment it came from, clearer than a folder of loose spreadsheets.

A head start on your wiki

With everything already organised in Lab Thread, writing up is mostly a case of copy, paste and format to iGEM’s guidelines.

“We had probably three or four different ways of gathering information. Putting it on Lab Thread resolved it, because everything’s just in one place.”

Roman L.

Fundraising lead, University of Oxford 2026 iGEM team

Read the University of Oxford case study

Up and running in three steps

Request seats for the rest of your team and let us know you are an iGEM team. We will confirm and open up free seats for everyone, however many of you there are.

Set up your projects, invite your team, and capture every protocol, sequence and result from day one, ready for write-up at the end.

Frequently asked questions

Who is eligible, and how do we get free seats for the whole team?

Any team competing in the iGEM competition. To set it up, sign up on the free plan and request seats for your additional team members. We will confirm you are an iGEM team and open up free seats for everyone, at no cost.

How many team members can we add?

As many as you like. Everyone on your team can have their own account.

How long is it free for?

For your competition year. iGEM runs as a one-year competition, and your free access covers that year.

What happens to our account after the competition year?

Your free access is for the competition year. After that, in line with our standard terms, your account becomes read-only for 12 months, so you can still look back over your work, and is then deleted. If your team would like to keep working in Lab Thread after the competition, you can move to a standard academic plan at any time. That plan is free for up to five users and paid for larger teams.

Can our host lab use Lab Thread too?

Yes. Any lab can open a standard free Lab Thread account, which is free for up to five users, with paid plans for larger teams. The iGEM offer is separate: free for your whole competition team, however many of you there are, for the competition year. The competition project usually runs separately from the host lab’s everyday work, so your iGEM workspace stays the team’s own.

Do we need to enter card details to sign up?

No. You can sign up without entering any card details.

Get your whole team working in one place

Free for iGEM competition teams, for the whole team and the whole competition year.

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