Redesigning Synthetic Biology with Automation

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GitHub launched in 2008. Their mission was to build a global platform for developer collaboration. What that means, basically, is they wanted computer programmers to work on projects together by giving them tools to store code (called repositories), track changes to that code, and edit other peoples’ code.


Mission accomplished. The company (now owned by Microsoft) is proof that, if you build useful tools and empower a community, people will come. GitHub is used by more than 100 million developers who have created nearly 400 million repositories.

GitHub is used by more than 100 million developers who have created nearly 400 million repositories.

These repositories contain templates, guides, and code snippets to help any programmer do just about anything. Want to spin up a website? You can find thousands of demos on GitHub. How about a web scraper? There are hundreds of ‘em.


We are inspired by GitHub and believe that biologists should have access to similar tools, but for DNA sequences and experiments instead of computer code. That’s why we’re building a tool, called Kernel, for scientists to store DNA sequences and associated data, share them with others, and track how they change over time.