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Synthace Blog
Company blog · synthace.com/blogscienceai
Synthace Blog is the company blog at synthace.com, writing about science and ai. Since 2014, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Comments link the Synthace company site, not blog posts. They describe a London firm building software to program liquid handling robots and run design-of-experiments protocols in biology.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Remove the friction from discovery biology. Design, automate, and run the powerful experiments that produce high-dimensional, contextualized data for AI.
What Hacker News says?
Synthace ( http://www.synthace.com ) | London, UK |Senior Front-end Engineer | Full-time | On-site Senior Front-End Engineer We are looking for a talented and experienced front end engineer to spearhead development of the Antha OS user interface. The Project Named by the World Economic Forum as one of the world’s 30 Technology Pioneers 2016, Synthace is re-imagining how we work with biology. Day-to-day, you’ll be wo…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)”Submitted Using ChatGPT to design and automate biology experiments as a story · 8 points
HN discussionThe article mentions performing myriad assays as a rate-limiting step in drug discovery. My employer https://www.synthace.com is trying to accelerate this process through software. We’ve created a platform to easily program liquid handling robots to perform complex protocols, and to do so using a Design-of-Experiments[1] approach to investigate multiple factors simultaneously. It’s early days for this approach but w…
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on “AlphaFold won’t revolutionise drug discovery”Submitted Lab automation software 'pro-bono' for teams fighting Covid-19 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI was looking into who this was funded by, and Synthace who are listed in the footer have this page: http://www.synthace.com/investors/ Amusingly, the link for their main sponsor's website goes to: "file:///C:/Users/sward/Downloads/www.sofinnova.fr"
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on “Antha – A high-level language for biology”For biology, Synthace supports designing experimental protocols using DOE, executing them on robotically automated lab equipment, then performing analysis on the results: https://www.synthace.com/
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on “Fractional Factorial Experiment Design: There Are Too Many Experiments to Do”