Homework
Weekly homework submissions:
Week 1 HW: Principles and Practices
Class Assignment 𓅨 First, describe a biological engineering application or tool you want to develop and why. I want to develop a 3D Bio-Art Platform that merges biological growth with interactive synthetic biology. The idea is to use 3D-printed molds and structured agar media to create “living sculptures” that don’t just sit there but actually “feel” and react.
Week 2 HW: DNA read, write & edit
Week 2 Lecture Prep Homework Questions from Professor Jacobson: 1) Nature’s machinery for copying DNA is called polymerase. What is the error rate of polymerase? How does this compare to the length of the human genome. How does biology deal with that discrepancy? The error rate of polymerase is 1 in 106 compared to the ~3.2 billion bp of the human genome. This means that the polymerase makes 3200 errors each time it replicates. Biology manages this discrepancy through DNA repair mechanisms, such as real-time proofreading and post-replication mismatch repair (MutS Repair system).
Homework Assignment: Python Script for Opentrons Artwork Your task this week is to Create a Python file to run on an Opentrons liquid handling robot. Generate an artistic design using the GUI at opentrons-art.rcdonovan.com. For my first design I made a colorful butterfly! I first used the Opentrons art page to design it by using the upload image option. Initially the design