True,
And a good example. However I remember data from the microarray revolution ... Garbage in / garbage out.
A lot of money is made from the unpredictability of biological responses, leading to the need for experimentalist approaches.
In my career I have led sales teams selling highly reproducible wide / parallel assay and gene expression screening tools. The limiting factor was the scientific customer's ability to comprehend a larger or 'bigger' question.
I think this is the flaw in Synthego's business model, but I'd be intrigued by answers demolishing my strawman.
>matt
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"Cathal Garvey (Phone)" <cathalgarvey@cathalgarvey.me> wrote:
Biology is trivially automatable if you have a practically infinite degree of parallelism. You know, like a cell.
Reminds me of the notion from SMBC that any object can be considered a perfect simulation of itself on single-purpose optimised hardware. :)
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Reminds me of the notion from SMBC that any object can be considered a perfect simulation of itself on single-purpose optimised hardware. :)
Matt Lawes <matt@insysx.com> wrote:
Interesting and ambitious concept of fully automated experimental suite.
One wonders on the feasibility though. If biology would succumb to massive automation when it is a fuzzy nth dimensional science with gray logic at best, one would think software and hardware coding (simpler system, fewer variables and driven entirely by logic) would itself have been automated already....Thoughts?
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Stephanie <steph@photofischer.net> wrote:
Also, for those interested, I just found this full time offer with a company called Synthego on GroupTalent, for programmers with a background in Python:It seems they are aiming to fully automate biological research.From: Tom HodderSent: Friday, October 11, 2013 10:21 AMSubject: Re: [DIYbio] An idea I am having that I want feedback onOn 11 October 2013 14:54, Stephanie <steph@photofischer.net> wrote:
I am on oDesk also, and would love to be able to find biotech jobs on it, or any other freelance sites. I haven't seen one, though. Since there is so much to sift through on those sites, one place that people can go to for this specific purpose would be absolutely perfect.
In the UK, I've had quite a bit of success both buying and selling on peopleperhour.com, though everyone complains about their rates, and their site can be buggy. Also elance.com and freelancer.com have both been a source of sub-contractors when I've been in a pinch... ;-)
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