capability
DNA foundry & design
Synthesis, assembly, BioBricks, foundry-as-a-service.
Where it's used
DNA synthesis & gene foundry
The commercial gene-synthesis service and biofoundry layer of synthetic biology — turning digital DNA designs into delivered genes, clones and strain builds through phosphoramidite and emerging enzymatic synthesis, governed by pathogen-sequence biosecurity screening.
iGEM infrastructure, BioBricks and standard genetic parts
The shared substrate synthetic biology runs on — a registry of standard parts and the student competition that populates it, nonprofit plasmid repositories, commercial gene synthesis reaching 7,000 base pairs on complex sequences, and automated biofoundries whose assemblies are now validated by long-read sequencing.