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by InquilineKea 2874 days ago
What are some concrete synthetic biology workflows whose labor costs have been reduced by this?

Why do you advertise this as "being for biologists" and also "for downloading drugs" at the same time? Biologists do much much more than just synthesize drugs.

How does the program "execute" a decision once, say, it detects that the percent molar composition of molecule A exceeds that of molecule B?

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Some concrete workflows are easy things like aliquotting and PCR, and as complex as PACE, a protocol for directed evolution.

The "for biologists" and "downloading drugs" only account for a small part of what we do. We use those phrases to get the point across, but you're totally right, they do a lot of stuff that we can automate such as parameter sweeps over a protocol to empirically increase the yield of the reaction.

We use normal conditionals, so if you can write an if statement with the desired branches, we can execute that. Both paths are statically allocated, currently there is only limited support for deferred routing. It's something i'm working on!