At Ginkgo we have developed a pipeline of technologies to enable our biological engineers to design, build, and test biological systems far faster than existing approaches. Our in-house technologies include:

We use a combination of reusable standard biological parts and synthetic metagenomics approaches to design multi-gene pathways with the target function. In the process, we make use of CAD tools to support system design. As a resource for the community, we've made available the BioBrick primer design tool. You might also check out Austin Che's work on design of synthetic ribozymes.

We combine high throughput automated DNA assembly with genome engineering to engineer strains. For example, Reshma Shetty assembled a suite of BioBrick vectors from BioBrick parts.

Finally, we measure and quantify the behavior our engineered strains. Barry Canton published an extensive characterization of a receiver device and Jason Kelly developed a reference standard for promoter characterization.

Contact us to learn more about the unique expertise and technologies available at Ginkgo.