Amyris and Autodesk Offer Powerful Open Source Tools for Genetic Design to Enable Rapid DNA Engineering
EMERYVILLE, Calif. and SAN FRANCISCO — Amyris, Inc. (Nasdaq:AMRS), the industrial bioscience company, in collaboration with the Autodesk BioNano Research Group, today announced the immediate availability of powerful open source tools for genetic design that leverage Autodesk’s Genetic Constructor, an extensible, open source, cloud CAD tool, and Amyris’s open source Genotype Specification Language (“GSL”), to more rapidly drive biological design and complex DNA construction. Autodesk BioNano Research and Amyris will be showcasing this solution today at SynBioBeta SF 2016 in San Francisco.
Best of Both Worlds
Those working in the genetic design community traditionally use a collection of disparate industrial and academic software tools that can be inefficient, difficult to acquire, set up, learn, and use. Genetic Constructor with GSL inside provides a seamless environment combining the power of a written genetic programming language along with an intuitive graphical environment. In the same wa

