Overview
Syllabus
Intro
Talk Outline
Industrial fermentation: nature's chemical plant
The total design space for biology is enormous
The Zymergen approach
Microbial engineering: Building DNA
Microbial engineering: Building microbes
Testing microbes
Custom software requirements
Software for DNA Search: Our problem
Our solution: Codon
DNA Data Model
DNA is annotated
DnaSpecification Example
Promoter swapping
DnaSpecifications are ASTS
ASTs let us preprocess structure
How'd we do?
The "Code trust" problem
Lessons from Code trust
The Simplified interface problem
Lessons from "Simplified interface"
The "Learning curve" problem
Lessons from "The learning curve"
The Super User problem
Lessons from "super users"
Conclusions
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Strange Loop Conference