Many labor-intensive biological tasks, such as the construction and cloning of DNA, are prime candidates for laboratory automation. Unfortunately, more effort is often required to program a robotic platform than would be saved by the automation itself, and software is frequently unavailable to design complex tasks. Here, we present two open-source tools under development, a biology-friendly robot programming language (PaR-PaR) and hierarchical protocol design automation software (DNA Constructor), that step toward enabling biological laboratory automation.
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Development of Biology Friendly Tools for Lab Automation and DNA Construction
Many labor-intensive biological tasks, such as the construction and cloning of DNA, are prime candidates for laboratory automation. Unfortunately, more effort is often required to program a robotic platform than would be saved by the automation itself, and software is frequently unavailable to design complex tasks. Here, we present two open-source tools under development, a biology-friendly robot programming language (PaR-PaR) and hierarchical protocol design automation software (DNA Constructor), that step toward enabling biological laboratory automation.