Synthetic Biology Automation: Five Tips to Improve Your Molecular Cloning Process

By Dwayne E. Carter, PhD, Molecular Devices

Synthetic biology is a rapidly growing field that uses engineering principles to design and build new biological systems. This field has the potential to produce a wide range of sustainable products, however, the current demand is revealing workflow challenges. The synthetic biology workflows are labor-intensive, time-consuming, and prone to human error which causes a manufacturing bottleneck.

Learn more about the challenges of synthetic biology workflow and how automation is assisting manufacturers in accelerate the pace of research, throughput and walkaway time. Topics covered include:

• Manual picking to automated picking using a high-throughput colony picker
• Integrate lab devices for a fully automated molecular cloning workflow
• Reducing cross-contamination
• Versatility for colony screening
• Data management in synthetic biology workflows