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I would love to see this kind of application but I hate the way it's marketed here as something as "simple" as an informatics problem. I've seen phD student spending multiple years of their life dedicated to express one specific protein in one bacteria and it never worked. Saying that you can design a software that can do this for you in an universal way for any gene / pathway is a just a blatant lie to oversell another product which come from a non biologist who think that biology / genetic could be easily solved by good software practice and new technology.

I love that more and more companies are trying to resolve genome editing or related stuff, but it might be also a good time for people to accept that sequencing (the human) whole genomes was just the first step to a very long journey before fully understanding how it works. And that biology is not that easy.




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