ABPDU creates open source software to benefit biotech community

In California, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office’s Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts Process Development Unit (ABPDU) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory shared two software applications that standardize bioreactor feeding processes that enable the wider biotech community to focus resources on the commercializing of technologies.

The open source software applications, alongside a set of video standard operating protocols, enable the wider biotech community to focus resources on the commercializing of technologies. When COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders took effect earlier this year, the ABPDU adapted.

Bioreactors are at the heart of biomanufacturing. These vessels help scientists understand how their technologies perform and how to scale them up. However, transferring processes between bioreactors is often difficult. received this feedback from their collaborators, who suggested that ABPDU create a set of tools that would make these processes easier.