As someone who has a DNA synthesizer in lab, who works on manipulating DNA daily to make various synthetic proteins, who lives and works in the bay area, and who knows enough coding to have understood the language of the OP - I'd love to help bridge some of those boundaries. There is a desperate need for some programming types to think about these issues. The fields of systems & synthetic biology are just starting to gain traction, but there is so much we can learn from cross-discipline interaction. The one issue is that we pay terribly...