Abstract: A system and method for docking and using bioreactors. There is a sterile suite that is constructed and arranged to house one or more bioreactors and a human-machine interface, and a separate utility space that is not sterile, and that is constructed and arranged to house sources of electricity, liquid and gas. There is a clean-room wall separating the sterile suite from the utility space. A docking station is located in the clean-room wall, with part of it (e.g., one side) in the sterile suite and another part of it (e.g., another side) in the utility space. The docking station has electrical, liquid and gas connections that the bioreactor can connect to on the sterile suite side of the docking station, and that the sources of electricity, liquid and gas can connect to on the utility space side of the docking station.