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Synthetic Biology Behemoth Aims to Police Its Own Industry

IEEE Spectrum July, 3rd 2018 by Elie Dolgin.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/ethics/synthetic-biology-behemoth-aims-to-police-its-own-industry

These algorithmic and machine-learning approaches are what’s needed for biosecurity tools in the industry to move beyond simply matching sequences against known problematic strings of genetic code, says Laura Adam. Adam is cofounder of Ebiosec, a data management platform for synthetic biology, and the developer of GenoTHREAT, an open-source screening tool.