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Asimov Engineering Blog
Company blog · asimov.io/blogsciencesystems
Asimov Engineering Blog is the company blog at asimov.io, writing about science and systems. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “The Circuitry in Our Cells”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters mention Asimov only as a software company in the synthetic biology scene, alongside other Bay Area and Boston biotech firms. The comments do not discuss the blog's writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Asimov builds tools to program living cells. We're integrating mammalian synthetic biology with computer-aided design to advance therapeutic applications.
Most-linked posts?
- The Circuitry in Our Cells2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-02-01
What Hacker News says?
In the bay area: We are! (Serotiny): https://serotiny.bio Synthego: https://www.synthego.com/ Mammoth: https://mammoth.bio/ Zymergen: https://www.zymergen.com/ Boston: Arbor: https://arbor.bio/ Asimov (kind of): https://www.asimov.io/ Ginkgo: https://www.ginkgobioworks.com/ Also just happy to chat about the (very interesting, vibrant, if still tiny) intersection of software & synbio.
Comment linking /
on “In a First, US Doctors Use Crispr Tool to Treat Patient with Genetic Disorder”Submitted The Circuitry in Our Cells as a story · 77 points
HN discussionWe do this at Serotiny [1]. And others are working on this as well for different specific purposes. We use some very basic ML (the data is very sparse, wide, but any hit above a low baseline is very valuable). The curious part, from our perspective is that biology has massive surface area - and the surface area is 3D. It not only scales between species/functions, but it also scales up and down, from atoms to organs.…
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on “Ask HN: Can we write a programming language for biology?”Submitted Vpn-Less Authentication with Kubernetes, Ambassador and Google IAP as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted ML and VLSI to design genetic circuits as a story · 1 points
HN discussion