You are absolutely correct that the lack of standardization in assay preparation harms productivity and reproducibility in the sciences. Molecular biology has

You are absolutely correct that the lack of standardization in assay preparation harms productivity and reproducibility in the sciences. Molecular biology has embraced standardization and automation to a great degree but it is an outlier. I've encountered enormous resistance from practitioners trying to apply automation into cell biology. Biology is enormously held back from the tools for improving productivity have to come from computer science but there is huge amounts of interdisciplinary friction.