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  • Molecular Biology
  • Biotechnology
  • Robotics Engineering

Background:

  • Robotics-accelerated evolution enhances experimental reliability and speed.
  • Feedback control is key to improving protein and organism evolution outcomes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To provide a comprehensive guide for setting up Phage- and Robotics-assisted Near-continuous Evolution (PRANCE).
  • To detail hardware and software requirements for implementing PRANCE systems.
  • To offer initial experimental protocols for validating a new PRANCE system.

Main Methods:

  • Describing hardware setup: liquid-handling instrument, plate reader, pumps, heaters, and 3D-printed containers.
  • Configuring liquid handling robots with Python-based open-source software.
  • Outlining initial experiments to validate PRANCE system capabilities.

Main Results:

  • PRANCE enables simultaneous, independent, feedback-controlled evolution experiments.
  • The guide facilitates the setup of complex robotics-accelerated evolution systems.
  • Successful validation experiments confirm system readiness for multiplexed evolution.

Conclusions:

  • PRANCE offers a powerful platform for high-throughput molecular evolution.
  • This guide serves as a crucial handbook for researchers establishing robotics-accelerated evolution.
  • The described setup enables reliable and accelerated evolution of proteins and organisms.