This post is actually two weeks old, but we never did the "Show HN: We built an API for biological research" we had been thinking of doing so I figured this would still be relevant.
From the first time I cloned a gene (that had already been isolated, and stored in a plasmid) into E.Coli, I've wanted programmatic biology. Doing manual bio work is tedious, error prone, and wasteful, but just talking to instruments in a uniform way has been a major problem. Thanks for making one of the first real ventures into that world.
We also released a new web app today: https://www.transcriptic.com/blog/2014/08/05/new-web-app.htm...
We've been working on this stuff for a long time. Shipping feels good.