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Hi, I am Benjie, and I work on software at Ginkgo. Synthetic biology is a big field; Ginkgo applies synthetic biology to metabolic engineering and we develop software that are somewhat specific to that area.

For example, many people talk about omics data by themselves, but we develop and use tools that allow us to integrate genetic, transcriptomic, proteomic, and metabolomic data with genetic changes, strain culturing conditions, sample prep parameters, and instrument settings. We want the truth.

In 10 years, the biggest impact left by our software efforts will not be any single piece of software, but a set of forward engineering rules, gathered by our existing and future software, that enables true design automation and makes biology a great engineering platform.