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Transcriptic: Full-stack developer (emphasis on frontend) Menlo Park, CA; https://www.transcriptic.com/ https://www.transcriptic.com/ Transcriptic is "Amazon

by frisco 12y ago

Transcriptic: Full-stack developer (emphasis on frontend) Menlo Park, CA; https://www.transcriptic.com/ https://www.transcriptic.com/ Transcriptic is "Amazon Web Services" for the life sciences. Rather than carry out wet-lab experiments by hand, researchers can code up (or visually configure) their experimental protocols and then run them in Transcriptic's central, highly automated 'biocenter' in an on-demand way. Customers have no upfront capital costs and pay for only what they use. Life science research today is incredibly slow, error-prone, monotonous, and expensive with researchers spending many hours a day every day just moving small volumes of liquids from one place to another. We're building a long-term company to completely change the way life science research and development is done. We're looking for a highly talented full-stack web developer. On top of our robotic work cells is a slew of internal services as well as a Rails app that acts as our lab information management system and customer-facing UI. Challenges range from building rich, interactive interfaces for composing protocols to presenting analytical data generated by the lab back to the user. We use d3, Backbone, CoffeeScript, and React today, but you'd be free to choose your own tools and libraries. We're a rapidly growing startup (you'd be #19), well funded ($6M: Google Ventures, IA Ventures, Data Collective, AME Cloud, Founders Fund) and have customers at places like Harvard, MIT, Caltech, UCSF, and Stanford. You'd be able to work on interesting science and hard technology in a small, all technical team with lots of freedom and resources. A biology background is preferred but not strictly necessary for outstanding people. Recent coverage: - http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/18/5216738/inside-transcriptic-the-secret-robot-lab-that's-shaking-up-science http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/18/5216738/inside-transcript... - http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/18/aws-for-life-science-with-4-1m-in-the-bank-transcriptic-wants-to-reinvent-scientific-research/ http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/18/aws-for-life-science-with-4... team at transcriptic.com

gajomi 12y ago
The service being offered at this company looks pretty interesting. The quick start example looks very reasonable (I didn't sign up to run, but I guess it must all work out). I was kind of confused though about finding and/or registering reagents and cell strains. How do you do this? It would be nice if there were another quick start example that completes some kind of standard growth assay for a verified bacterial strain (does Transcriptic have a strain library?) in one or two different media types. As a potential customer this is the sort of proof of concept example that I would want to see before pursuing anything further.
- frisco 12y ago
  We do not have a strain library that's generally available across customers. That's organization-specific IP. Strains (which we'd call a type of "resource") are usually sent in by the customer, created from scratch (eg buy TOP10 cells and transform), or bought from a commercial vendor through us. Send us an email and we'd be happy to talk more! team@transcriptic will go to me and a few other people who can answer these questions.

by frisco 12y ago

gajomi 12y ago

The service being offered at this company looks pretty interesting. The quick start example looks very reasonable (I didn't sign up to run, but I guess it must all work out). I was kind of confused though about finding and/or registering reagents and cell strains. How do you do this? It would be nice if there were another quick start example that completes some kind of standard growth assay for a verified bacterial strain (does Transcriptic have a strain library?) in one or two different media types. As a potential customer this is the sort of proof of concept example that I would want to see before pursuing anything further.

frisco 12y ago
We do not have a strain library that's generally available across customers. That's organization-specific IP. Strains (which we'd call a type of "resource") are usually sent in by the customer, created from scratch (eg buy TOP10 cells and transform), or bought from a commercial vendor through us. Send us an email and we'd be happy to talk more! team@transcriptic will go to me and a few other people who can answer these questions.