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From Ideas to Reality: Synthetic Biology Comes of Age - with Jason Kelly

The SynBioBeta Podcast

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The Cost of Genetic Code Compiling and Debugging

How do you measure that? Do you have a dashboard in your office that looks at how fast you're able to iterate? Talk about that. Yeah, so we've had a few different metrics, but one of the ones that we like is more of a low level metric, as a metric we call a strain test. If you're a biologist, you could think of it kind of like a phenotype, genotype mapping. But basically, you've made a change to a cell and then you want to run some sort of assay on its performance. And that assays will give you back information about the performance of your design. That's a straintest. We've gone from 10

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