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Interesting. It seems automation would greatly speed up this field. I wonder if progress is being made on this front.

• pochekailov 7y ago
  You are absolutely right. After those 11 years in molecular biology, I am absolutely convinced that the bottleneck of the field is not some fancy method, but a total lack of automation. Modern "CRISPR" cool methods are done with essentially the same tools as the research from 50 years ago. I would claim, that computer scientists are lucky ones: they have skills to create their own tools. To make a better, more automated programming language, you would need same skills as to use that language. Biologists on the other hands are different. The skills to do biology are totally different from skills needed to automate biology. And so the gap appears: biologists don't even think of automating, and mechanical/electrical/computer engineers are not even aware of the problem