<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Week 3: Opentrons :: 2026a-asaf-balaga</title><link>https://pages.htgaa.org/2026a/asaf-balaga/homework/week3-opentrons/index.html</link><description>Find and describe a published paper that utilizes the Opentrons or an automation tool to achieve novel biological applications.
The paper I’ve chosen is AssemblyTron: flexible automation of DNA assembly with Opentrons OT-2 lab robots by John A. Bryant Jr., Mason Kellinger, Cameron Longmire, Ryan Miller, and R. Clay Wright.
Published in Synthetic Biology (Volume 8, Issue 1, 2023), the paper presents a new open-source script for the Opentrons OT-2 robot called “AssemblyTron.” The paper overviews automation in the context of synthetic biology’s repeating workflow (the DBTL cycle) and argues that experimental progress is often constrained by the labor and tacit expertise required to carry out repetitive, error-prone bench work. These standards are crucial for reliable experimentation, but the paper suggests automation can help by:</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><atom:link href="https://pages.htgaa.org/2026a/asaf-balaga/homework/week3-opentrons/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/></channel></rss>