What's the best place for a software engineer to start deep diving into synthetic biology?

Never had anything to do with biology, but as a dev I programmed everything from AI, blockchain, low level hardware, does that help? :)

Your experience totally aligns! Synbio is growing a lot in the AI/machine learning space for things like drug discovery, in the hardware space for lab automation & even blockchain w projects that want to secure genomic data

ACS Synbio is a great journal: (recent AI pub:https://pubs.acs.org/page/asbcd6/vsi/aiforsynbio)

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Here is also a perspective on self driving labs that run on automation and AI: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0958166922002154

ultimately I would recommend looking for reviews or perspective pieces, then if you find something that deeply interests you taking a deeper dive into the specific tech :)

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