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While I agree with you that there is a ton of automation, it's a bit flippant to suggest the manual work in biology is because of old-timers. You can't exactly
by JunkDNA 14y ago
While I agree with you that there is a ton of automation, it's a bit flippant to suggest the manual work in biology is because of old-timers. You can't exactly automate necropsy on a rat liver to see if the compound you just gave it caused liver failure. There are a ton of experiments that are not automatable with current robotics technologies. Plus, even when you can automate, biology can't be rushed. If you're waiting for a tumor to grow in a mouse model, you have to wait real wall clock time.
- rabidsnail 14y agoI'm in no position to argue about the mechanics of rat autopsy. But I do know how to get high throughput when you have high latency: shotgun parallelism. Try tons of things, the vast majority of which you assume will turn up with nothing, starting at the same time, in parallel.