Seems like synthetic biology is a field you should look into! It's very exciting!
My background is in Biomed but I joined the dark side and became a computer scientist instead.
One time, though, I used ruby to scrape a chinese website where they made 'public' the genome of an organism. They clearly weren't interested in actually making it public (as the sequences were very hard to pull), and after we had gotten the data they made it impossible and took down announcements that it was public, so sometimes real computer skills are welcome!
ArXiv abstract here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.07430
Git repo here: https://github.com/marko-vasic/crnPlusPlus
Hope to see some interesting synthetic molecules published by you :-)