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I'm very interested in this field but had a hard time figuring out what the meat of the article was. Can you elaborate?

• sjg007 9y ago
  You can rapidly screen (using robotics) the phenotypic space of a wide range of (genetically engineered) mutant organisms (yeast or bacteria) and feed that data into deep neural networks to ultimately predict from input DNA sequences, conditions --> phenotype. You will probably even be able to apply a reinforcement learning algorithm to optimize a particular phenotype/outcome. Ultimately, the AI will be able to do this in a self contained system.
  • sjg007 9y ago
    And that is the simplistic answer. At some point you will probably figure out how a micro biome works in concert and either engineer a super organism or populations of organisms to do some specific task(s).