{"id":78355,"date":"2018-05-05T07:22:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T14:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/biology-will-be-the-next-great-computing-platform"},"modified":"2018-05-09T11:11:13","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T18:11:13","slug":"biology-will-be-the-next-great-computing-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/biology-will-be-the-next-great-computing-platform","title":{"rendered":"Biology Will Be the Next Great Computing Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/biology-will-be-the-next-great-computing-platform.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/<\/a>\u2026\/biology-will-be-the-next-great-comp\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In some ways, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.synthego.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Synthego<\/a> looks like any other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/tag\/silicon-valley\/\">Silicon Valley<\/a> startup. Inside its beige business park facilities, a five-minute drive from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/tag\/facebook\">Facebook<\/a> HQ, rows of nondescript black server racks whir and blink and vent. But inside the metal shelving, the company isn\u2019t pushing around ones and zeros to keep the internet running. It\u2019s making molecules to rewrite the code of life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/what-is-crispr-gene-editing\/\">Crispr,<\/a> the powerful gene-editing tool, is revolutionizing the speed and scope with which scientists can modify the DNA of organisms, including human cells. So many people want to use it\u2014from academic researchers to agtech companies to biopharma firms\u2014that new companies are popping up to staunch the demand. Companies like Synthego, which is using a combination of software engineering and hardware automation to become the Amazon of genome engineering. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inscripta.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Inscripta,<\/a> which wants to be the Apple. And <a href=\"https:\/\/twistbioscience.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Twist Bioscience,<\/a> which could be the Intel.<\/p>\n<p>All these analogies to the computing industry are more than just wordplay. Crispr is making biology more programmable than ever before. And the biotech execs staking their claims in Crispr\u2019s backend systems have read their Silicon Valley history. They\u2019re betting biology will be the next great computing platform, DNA will be the code that runs it, and Crispr will be the programming language.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/biology-will-be-the-next-great-computing-platform\/?mbid=social_tw_sci\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/biology-will-be-the-next-great-c...ial_tw_sci<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.wired.com\/\u2026\/biology-will-be-the-next-great-comp\u2026 In some ways, Synthego looks like any other Silicon Valley startup. Inside its beige business park facilities, a five-minute drive from Facebook HQ, rows of nondescript black server racks whir and blink and vent. But inside the metal shelving, the company isn\u2019t pushing around ones and zeros to keep the internet running. It\u2019s making [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":472,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412,418,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-internet","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/472"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78529,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78355\/revisions\/78529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}