09 Jun 2015
Flow chemistry is pretty hot right now, check out anything by Steve Ley he does some cool stuff. Flow chemistry and microfluidics are really popular, they enable precision control over the spatial distribution of materials during continuous processes. This is useful when one wants to continuously combine materials such as in a chemical process ultimately yielding a higher throughput when compared to batch processing. Flow chemistry and microfluidics also enable the emulation of biological systems, replicating similar kinetics and shear flows at surfaces which are not necessarily possible in bulk processes.
02 Jun 2015
Just a flat white and some E. coli please
26 Apr 2015
On my first attempt at translating an experimental protocol to the Autoprotocol format I got as far as creating a run on Transcriptic with the protocol which is awesome. The downside of that Autoprotocol though, was that the samples being used in the experiment were hardcoded into the python script, so any variation in experimental samples or parameters would have to be made in the python.
19 Apr 2015
At Dentally we were initially hesitant of using Twitter regularly because we wanted to use the platform to provide value rather than just self promote, which is all over Twitter.
18 Apr 2015
Recently I wrote about my first experience of running a simple experiment on Transcriptic’s cloud biology platform. It was a simple bacterial growth curve. The protocol for running this experiment was produced by interacting with a GUI to enter parameters and the actual knitty-gritty of liquid handling and spectroscopic measurements was already predefined.