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A Look Inside Transcriptic’s (YC W15) New Biotech Testing Facility
- aheilbut 12y agoTechcrunch has zero understanding of biotech research or how expensive and hard it is, or the current state of the art. ($20k in credits is not going to go very far..) I like the idea of Transcriptic, but it's relevant only to a very small subset of the kinds of experiments that people do. There have been robots and CROs (and structure-based design, etc, etc, etc.) in biotech for a very long time.
- frisco 12y agoWell, this comment is a big improvement over how it was a few years ago when we first started and everyone thought the whole idea was clearly impossible. We went from being impossible to trivial! Progress!
- aheilbut 12y agoI didn't say it's trivial.. I think it's a cool model (and much better to be Amazon than all the suckers paying for AWS!), I know it's hard to do well (and expensive), and I don't doubt at all that your software is waaaay better than what Tecan and PerkinElmer et al. provide. The breathlessness of the reporting irks me though..