From Synthetic Biology to Programmable Biology
For over a decade, SynBioBeta has hosted The Global Synthetic Biology Conference—the gathering place for innovators reimagining what’s possible with living systems. This year, the name evolves to reflect how the field itself has grown:
Welcome to The Global Programmable Biology Conference.
Synthetic biology remains our foundation—the discipline that made biology a toolset for design and discovery. But today, the field extends far beyond DNA assembly and adopting engineering principles. It now integrates AI, automation, and data-driven experimentation to help us explore, model, and guide biological systems with increasing precision.
At SynBioBeta, we champion the idea of programmable biology—not because biology is simple, but because it is extraordinarily complex and deeply worth understanding. Biology is not software; it’s nonlinear, emergent, and contextual. Yet the language of programmability captures an aspiration: that through new computational tools, shared standards, and iterative design, we can work with living systems more predictably and responsibly.
This vision isn’t about mastering life—it’s about learning to design in dialogue with it. It invites engineers, biologists, and data scientists to find common ground, building frameworks where evolution and design inform each other.)
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