it boils down to costs. spinning up some code on your laptop is effectively free. of course your time, electricity, laptop depreciating, etc. cost money, but it

it boils down to costs. spinning up some code on your laptop is effectively free. of course your time, electricity, laptop depreciating, etc. cost money, but it's negligible if you're just taking a break from earning your living in that space. to execute a biological experiment, you need to move liquids around which adds a ton of costs for handling said liquids. also, you need to indirectly analyze the results, which requires equipment to amplify/change the output to a human readable format. i've returned to issac asimov's response to innovation: find the smartest people, pay them a stipend contingent on completing some quick menial task, and then leave them be for a few weeks. out the other end you'll have innovations.