ben ray

starting a cloud lab for assembling genes. first external contributor @pylabrobot, started team autom8 @retrobio_

[PyLabRobot @pylabrobot]

Google Research is also entering the wet lab biology space, using PyLabRobot!

Check out the blog post: https://t.co/gITNmjwMrx

Thanks for the shout out and contributions!

[PyLabRobot @pylabrobot]

Exciting new project using PLR:

[Ryan Boileau @bffswithbiology]

@exosome If curious, this discovery is from Ann Zovein's work in 2008+. Was lots of hype about a new route to blood formation but not sure why it didn't go further than it did.

[ben ray @_benray]

@danielnzg85 without startups spending cash short-term, we wouldn’t have bankruptcies

[ben ray @_benray]

you can just acquire hamilton STARs with a 10x markdown at bankruptcy auctions

[ben ray @_benray]

@danielnzg85 i never understood why labs kept this secret, obviously efficient markets are better in the long term. good luck!

[ben ray @_benray]

@HaotianGuo_qb never used at all :p

[ben ray @_benray]

@nimivashi15 we just buy extra hamiltons from auctions for spare parts

[ben ray @_benray]

@nimivashi15 this one is brand new! we also have a full pylabrobot hardware guide for the STAR including everything besides calibration and maintenance of 96ch / 384ch heads, so repairs are extremely cheap and fast

[ben ray @_benray]

@bffswithbiology we really needed it ! i hear nugget scientific installs 96ch heads for very cheap

[ben ray @_benray]

@amgauge $13,590 including taxes + shipping. our first STAR+ iSWAP was $2k

[ben ray @_benray]

@bornspectator42 https://t.co/1k7qIfgCy2

[ben ray @_benray]

384x isopropanol precipitation plasmid minipreps in 5.5 fully automated hours. built with @pylabrobot

[ben ray @_benray]

@pylabrobot spheroplast yeast gDNA extraction from 192 unique colonies, fully automated in 5.5 hrs with in-house reagents

[Tyler Hulett @seromics]

What humanity is able to observe is defined by the instruments available to make those observations. This robot is building "a telescope" that will help observe types of autoimmunity never-yet looked for and create a more complete synthetic human proteome.

[ben ray @_benray]

@aaronmsaunders @pylabrobot that’s 96 across 4 plates, we use a pipette from the STAR 8 variable channels to spot those 4 plates. 384 density would be a very nice upgrade!

[ben ray @_benray]

96-plasmid yeast transformation and 384-spot plating across 4 SBS agar plates for clonal purification. solved by @pylabrobot in 3.25 hours

https://t.co/M23A54K3qd

[ben ray @_benray]

@alexsaraki @pylabrobot fully automated genome engineering doesn't come cheap!

[ben ray @_benray]

@alexsaraki @pylabrobot this was a 2-day project, most time-consuming is designing, printing, and defining the 30c peltier and camera plate carrier

[ben ray @_benray]

industrial automators: take note