I've updated the code base I use for my yeast Synbio work. It now supports Janus liquid handling robots and golden gate assemblies: github.com/TomLoan/PYEAST
#SynBio #Yeast
Next up is adding support for CRISPR experiments.

My work hobby is resurrecting equipment - one of the pumps on this old Janus robot is busted but the other seven are now ready to set up all my PCRs 😄

Our groups first pre-print is out now. It describes the internal tools we've developed over the last year or so to streamline and automate yeast molecular biology workflows.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

PYEAST - Python Enabled Automated Strain Transformaiton https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.19.655004v1

Today, the value of the land taken from Māori is about $657 billion, while the total the Crown has spent on ALL Tiriti settlements is less than $3 billion.
As a result, generational land/property wealth has expanded for Pākeha & been effectively obliterated (stolen) for Māori #ToitūTeTiriti #nzpol

This work convinced me it's not always necessary to engineer biology - for some problems, like bio-synthesizing bromoform to reduce methane emissions from cattle, the right organism is out there already and you just need to create a process around it
doi.org/10.1016/j.bt...