A followup to our previous discussion of running parallel tasks in Celery, with details on how we solved the largest problem with our initial implementation Our Computational Biology software team develops several workflows for designing and executing large sets of genetic edits of microbes. …

My job as a biologist in the lab used to consist of moving liquids back and forth by hand. At Zymergen, I’m training robots to automate the worst parts of that job, and I’m here to tell you why you should look forward to fully automated luxury science. I’ve been…

Our end-to-end approach for model selection for unsupervised outlier detection algorithms, with an emphasis on parameter tuning. At Zymergen, we integrate robotics, software, and biology to predictably and reliably improve microbial strains through genetic engineering. We design large numbers of microbe variants, then test their performance in high throughput screens…

No one would sell us a high-throughput system that could be reconfigured in minutes and would scale to fill a factory. So we built one. In the past year, Zymergen has nearly doubled the size of our high-throughput life sciences facility, and our need for lab automation has grown even…

An introduction to running parallel tasks with Celery, plus how and why we built an API on top of Celery’s Canvas task primitives One of the technology goals of Zymergen is to empower biologists to explore genetic edits of microbes in a high throughput and highly automated manner. The Computational…

How Solutions Engineering Goals Drive Our Architecture Design While the Solutions Engineering team at Zymergen works on software, we do so in a fundamentally different way than the Software department. Our unique requirements call for us to architect a custom platform to best provide tools for our users. …

At Zymergen we are building a data science ecosystem where machine learning algorithms help predict which genetic edits will produce strains with enhanced chemical production. These strains can reduce our reliance on chemicals derived from fossil fuels, in line with Zymergen’s mission to build a sustainable future through biology. We’ve…

We’re proud of our team’s culture. As we grew, we found we wanted to write down the values that have created that culture. …

How to be the best dang code reviewers and reviewees possible At Zymergen, we take our dedication to code quality seriously, so it should be no surprise that code reviews are an important part of our process — every line of code we write gets reviewed. But anyone who has…