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Powering CRISPR with AWS Lambda

In our last post, we talked about the algorithm we use to do sub-second CRISPR searches on billions of DNA bases. Our initial search infrastructure was too expensive and unscalable, so one of our summer interns, Harini, focused on rebuilding this infrastructure using AWS…


Optimizing CRISPR: Sub-second searches on a 3 billion base genome

CRISPR is a genome-editing technique that has rapidly gained popularity in the world of synthetic biology over the last two years.

CRISPR allows scientists to edit genomes with unprecedented…

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