Product Sourcing Strategy for DNA

DNA is the software of life. The product sourcing strategies for software include in-house software development, commercial-off-the-shelf packages, cloud computing, mobile computing or open source software. These product sourcing strategies can also be applied to DNA. Genetic engineering provides the expertise and framework for in-house engineering of synthetic DNA. Commercial options are also available for synthetic DNA that is sold off the shelf such as from Twist Biosciences. Open source, cloud computing, and mobile computing are available in the form of BLAST (basic local alignment search tool) which is the Google of biological data. This is a search engine and database which has an algorithm that compares primary biological sequence information.

Medical Laboratories are at the heart of sourcing DNA solutions. Everyone should become part of the DNA software revolution.