Advancing Reproducible Science through Open Source Laboratory Protocols as Software

Hello everyone!

My name is Luiza, I am an eighth-semester Bsc Biological Sciences student from São Paulo, Brazil. As part of the LabOp, my proposal under the mentorship of Dan Bryce and TimFallon aims to build a conversor that takes normal laboratory protocols and translates them into machine executable protocols. This is possible thanks to LabOP’s versatility to represent what a Lab protocol should look like. I´ll be testing this specialization in Hamilton machines that are great for experimenting scalling up.

I have acquired good programming knowledge by learning technologies like HTML, CSS, JSON, Python and Figma. I have built a few projects with the technologies I learned and they are listed on my website and on Github.

I worked as Marketing Director and Executive Director at the Brazilian Association of Synthetic Biology and I’ve been actively seeking to improve collaborations between laboratories by sharing their common protocols for genetic engineering and molecular biology processes, and I believe that the best way to achieve that is to implement a common language for laboratory protocol design that could be used to represent & execute such protocols across diverse laboratories. Whether it is by a machine or a person(or even both), a laboratory protocol should be Straightforward and understandable, that’s why I’m working with LabOP to write protocols for Hamilton liquid-handling robots.