Should we use Ginkgo Bioworks’s autonomous lab to test if Claude’s gene editor actually works ? Lmk what you think

@Ginkgo 100%. It upsets me that you haven’t already started

@Ginkgo noted :)

@Ginkgo Yes

@Ginkgo oh dang getting the Gleb👍, now I don't want to let you down

@Ginkgo the people want to know!

@Ginkgo Of course you should, that's why your platform exists ;)

@Ginkgo The agents do want hands in the lab

@Ginkgo do it!

@Ginkgo 🫡

@alectricity @Ginkgo don't ask for permission JKell -- do it!

@alectricity @Ginkgo just want your permission

@Ginkgo Oh my. 😂 peer review!

@Ginkgo hah, they don't know if works yet either -- more like science at work :)

@Ginkgo yes

@Ginkgo @jrkelly banger

@Ginkgo helps to have a robotic lab

@Ginkgo the people need to know

@Ginkgo Test it!

@Ginkgo What if Claude is tricking us all ? 😏

@Ginkgo Yes, let’s see. Give it a try!! 🔭 👀

@Ginkgo

@Ginkgo Scoop them!! 🤣

@Ginkgo Haha, I think they published it so people could work on it :D I do think we might be able to do faster info exchange in science in the AI era. The rate of information exchange of traditional papers feels a bit off with the how easily AI tools can incorporate new info.

@Ginkgo heck ya

@Ginkgo absolutely!

@Ginkgo 💯

@Ginkgo Edit those genes!

@Ginkgo thank you for explaining. though do you find impressive that tech company did that? or not really? what would be a cost to do the same without AI? just curious.

@Ginkgo Calling it a gene editor is a huge stretch. Nonetheless, the most basic tests would be to make the protein (cell-free) and then test it for polymerase activity (primer extension assay). If it passes that bar, see if the array locus does anything in the presence of the RT.

@Ginkgo Why not @AnthropicAI acquihires @Ginkgo for just single-digit % of it's annual revenue and supercharge all it's biotech research

@Ginkgo yes do it !!!!!!!!!!!!!

@Ginkgo Mine the AgBiome gene set for your own buried treasure, then validate on RACs.

@Ginkgo Doooo it!

@Ginkgo 🙌🙌

@Ginkgo They should pay you for this tho.

@Ginkgo Yes, Ginkgo should put this finding through its own independent experimental workflow and see what the data reveals.

@Ginkgo Don't let Altman catch you!

@Ginkgo That would be the optimal proof of concept setup!

@Ginkgo This guy doesn’t get enough credit for thinking outside the box consistently… god speed

@Ginkgo I like this

@Ginkgo Absolutely !