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Expand Up @@ -29,8 +29,15 @@ When scientists create notebook entries in Benchling, this webhook
automatically:

- **Creates a dedicated Quilt package** for each notebook entry
- **Synchronizes metadata** from Benchling (experiment IDs, authors, etc.)
into that package
- **Synchronizes metadata** from Benchling into that package, e.g.,
- `authors` (list)
- `created_at` (ISO timestamp)
- `creator` (e.g. `"First Last <user_id@ent_XXXX>"`)
- `display_id` (e.g. `"EXP0000XXXXXX"`)
- `entry_id` (e.g. `"etr_XXXXXX"`)
- `files` (list)
- `modified_at` (ISO timestamp)
- `web_url` (URL string)
- **Copies attachments** from that notebook into Amazon S3 as part of the
package.
- **Enables organizational data discovery** by making contents available in
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