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28 employees rate working at Twist Bioscience highly across various culture dimensions. They’re most satisfied with the CEO Rating and Executive Team. They also like the company’s pace of work.
Cost-Effective
The cost of synthesis is a huge challenge for many life science customers. Twist Bioscience has created a disruptive way to manufacture DNA at scale by miniaturizing and automating known chemistry for efficiently printing millions of pieces of synthetic DNA on a silicon chip the size of a 96-well plate. This allows them to reduce high-cost input materials by 99.8% and cut the cost of synthesis to cents rather than dollars.
In addition to lowering costs, the company has worked to improve its cloning technology to make it easier to assemble gene fragments into bigger genes or pathways. These gene assemblies can then be used for downstream PCR-based analysis and other genomics applications. Moreover, Twist Bioscience has begun working on digital data storage using DNA. The amount of digital data continues to grow exponentially, outpacing the capacity of current storage technologies. Twist Bioscience has published research showing that DNA can store information with 100 percent accuracy.
Faster
Twist’s innovative silicon platform is able to miniaturise and optimise DNA synthesis, speeding up and reducing the cost of genetic engineering. This is enabling scientists to address some of the most challenging issues to mankind, such as reducing our energy dependency, increasing food yields and novel therapies for disease.
As a biotechnology company, Twist Bioscience is committed to providing high-quality, affordable DNA products. They offer a wide range of benefits, including competitive compensation and a comprehensive health insurance package. In addition, employees receive equity in the company and flexible work options.
As a leading supplier of DNA sequencing, Twist Bioscience has launched an NGS ProLab partnership with PacBio to offer genomic researchers the fastest and most accurate targeted sequencing solutions for their research. The new long read panels and sequencing by binding (SBB) technology help streamline workflows, allowing scientists to generate more data per run, without the need for orthogonal assays. It also improves coverage of repetitive sequences and homopolymer runs.
More Genes
Twist Bioscience uses its silicon DNA synthesis platform to make many different types of synthetic DNA. This includes DNA for use in gene editing and library construction for drug discovery. It also creates DNA fragments for Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) preparation and DNA data storage.
Emily Leproust, CEO of Twist Bioscience, says the company’s mission is to eventually make cloning obsolete by creating DNA faster and cheaper. She envisions this technology being used by chemical, pharma, and agbiotech companies.
To support these applications, Twist Bioscience needed a cloud platform provider that would closely collaborate with it from an engineering perspective. That’s why they chose Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, which offers high-performing GPU instances and a global data center network that provides the scale required for genomics processing. The platform also allows Twist Bioscience to easily scale up or down to meet changing needs. Twist Bioscience recently partnered with Desktop Genetics to enable its customers to design CRISPR screens for their cell lines and then send that information to Twist Bioscience for sgRNA library synthesis.
More Opportunities
Twist Bioscience’s revolutionary approach to gene synthesis allows for higher throughput and lower cost than current technology. Their technology allows for the creation of up to 10 billion genetic variations for each library, a level of diversity that enables antibody discovery against challenging targets that would otherwise be difficult or impossible using other methods.
The company’s innovation also reduces the carbon footprint of synthetic DNA production by requiring less material to achieve the same result. Additionally, they use a more sustainable production process by “writing” DNA on a silicon chip rather than using traditional equipment.
Employees at Twist Bioscience are satisfied with the company’s compensation and perks, ranking them in the Top 25% of similar sized companies on Comparably. The company’s employees are also satisfied with their coworkers, rating them a B-, with the majority of participants believing that meetings are effective and looking forward to working with their colleagues. They also appreciate the clarity of their KPIs and OKRs.