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Journal: Week 2022-01-07

blankJanuary 07, 2022

This week I was mostly exploring SynBio DevOps for a blog post I wrote.

Image Courtesy of Synthace

I read a lot of articles while writing some blog posts. Here are the key ones.

Biodefense in the Age of Synthetic Biology I read this while writing my SynBio Devops blog post. I wish I’d seen it earlier because it would have saved me a lot of work. I intend to go back and write a blog post to summarize its contents.
How Bio is Disrupting Industries and Eating the World: A Historical Perspective
Biology is Eating the World: A Manifesto: a16z (Andreessen Horowitz). “drug discovery and development will move from a bespoke to an iterative process”
How Biotech Startup Funding Will Change in the Next 10 Years, 2019
Translational Medicine The goal of TM is to combine disciplines, resources, expertise, and techniques within these pillars to promote enhancements in prevention, diagnosis, and therapies. Accordingly, translational medicine is a highly interdisciplinary field, the primary goal of which is to coalesce assets of various natures within the individual pillars in order to improve the global healthcare system significantly
Go+: The Go+ language for engineering, STEM education, and data science.
- For engineering: working in the simplest language that can be mastered by children.
- For STEM education: studying an engineering language that can be used to work in the future.
- For data science: communicating with engineers in the same language.

Ginkgo Ferment 2021 Videos just got posted. Website says it was in Oct. Was it a COVID event time warp? Its in person.

Video 1 Ginkgo Ferment 2021: Developing the Next Wave of Products with Synthetic Biology. Announced Jake Wintermute as developer evangelist. I followed him in Twitter a while back and thought it was a cool handle, but its his actual name. And he really does live in Paris, France.

GEN: Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News I signed up for a free newsletter.
ChemPartner: Life Science CRO/CDMO. China.
Science Exchange: Marketplace lets you source, order and pay for 3,500+ scientific services providers.
OpenTrons: Open source lab automation hardware and software. Python API.
- Opentrons OT2 Liquid Handler Robot Video. Get ready to shake your booty cause that soundtrack is funkier that it needs to be.
Atomwise: “developed a machine learning-based discovery engine that combines the power of convolutional neural networks with massive chemical libraries to discover new small molecule medicines.”
- IT: Terraform/Ansible. Python. Docker. AWS.

None specifically. Jennifer Doudna, Tom Knight, and Eric Lander are always on my mind.

Synthace: Design of Experiments Masterclass For Biology
- Synthace is one of my favorite Cloud Bio Labs play. This masterclass is focused on helping lab biologist transition to it. 3 Sessions. Session 1: Starts January 25th 2022.
- Design of Experiments (DOE) is a systematic method of investigating the relationship between multiple factors and their impact on the process simultaneously.
- It is the key to understanding the ever-increasing complexity of biological experiments, and has the potential to transform biological research.
MIT Intro to Deep Learning | 6.S191
- MIT’s introductory course on deep learning methods with applications to computer vision, natural language processing, biology,… 1 Week crash course. Next session starts Jan 24.
- The website (No HTTPS. Academia, you need me.)
- Lectures on YouTube: New 2021 Edition!
  - 1. Intro

These Acronyms are all courtesy of ChemPartner.com

Things I ran across and thought “Oh yeah, I need to look into that sometime, but not now.”