In the last tutorial, we sent our library off to the assembler... what happens next?

TeselaGen is different in that we don't require you to figure out how to build a library in the traditional artisanal fashion. Once you get your design into the Design Editor, the DNA Assembler takes over and generates all the information you need to build your library. You can think of the DNA Assembler as something like a magic cookbook. For example, you might have a recipe for lasagna for 8 people. Now, however, you need to do lasagna for a big party of 200 people, 15% of whom are vegetarian, 5% of whom may be gluten intolerant, and oh yeah, you need to feed them as cost-effectively as possible and all your cooks are robots! Wouldn't it be great if our recipe could magically adjust and generate all the required cost-optimal instructions for our robot cooks? This is what the DNA Assembler does, albeit for making DNA libraries and not lasagna.

While the DNA Assembler is finished the notification system will let you know.

You can view the results by clicking on the Assembly Reports icon on the right panel and clicking on the report of interest. 

Alternatively, you can click on the Reports button to view all the assembly reports that have been generated by the assembler and select the report of interest. 

If you take a look at the entire output report it looks pretty detailed. The report starts with information about your design, the assembly method, the time it was run, the export format options, and whether any warning or errors were encountered during the assembly. 

Following this descriptive data, the report is sectioned as follows: Prebuilt Constructs, Assembled Constructs, Input Sequences, Input Parts, Assembly Oligos, Annealed Oligos, Synthon Sequences, PCRs, Assembly Pieces, Assemblies. You can view the content of each section by expanding its window. By default, the window is collapsed if there is no content to display. The sections in the figure above were manually collapsed so that they all can fit on the screen. You can view the definition of each section by hovering the cursor over the information icon. Let’s look at each section in more detail. 

1. Prebuilt Constructs

These are constructs that have been built and are available in the library. These are particularly useful for hierarchical designs as they allow us to build complex DNA constructs from simpler constructs that have been built before. In our example, we built our constructs from scratch so there are no prebuilt constructs to display. 

2. Assembled Constructs

Recall that we used the combinatorial design editor to create 8 constructs. Those are the assembled constructs or output constructs. You can view an assembled construct in the Vector Editor by double-clicking that construct. You can also save the assembled constructs to the DNA sequence library. 

3. Input Sequences

As the name suggested, input sequences are the source sequences of the parts in your assembled constructs. They are present in the “DNA Sequences” library. 

4. Input Parts

The input parts are the segments of input sequences used in the assembly. They are not necessarily the fragments to be assembled together.  

5. Assembly Oligos

The section tells you what you need to go out and order oligos from your favorite synthesis provider. You have the option to either save the list to the oligo library or export it as a CSV file. You should be able to view the sequence of each oligo from the Oligo library. TeselaGen will be providing direct links to these providers to make ordering easy (this feature is currently available only in our Build module).

6. Annealed Oligos

This section lists any oligos used as annealed oligos for specific use cases. We don't have any annealed oligos in this example so this section is empty.

7. Synthons

One of our early customers called synthesized DNA "synthons" and the name stuck. This section lists the DNA pieces that will be directly synthesized. In our example, there is no direct synthesis so this section is empty.  

8. PCRs

We are generating our DNA assembly pieces using PCR from existing sequences so this panel is relevant. This section lists the PCR reactions that need to be done as well as the properties of the reactions.

9. Assembly Pieces

This section lists the fragments to be put together in the final assembly reactions to give the desired constructs. The parts of each fragment can be viewed from the last section - Assemblies 

10. Assemblies

This section lists what goes where to make up the final DNA library. In a lab setting, this list gets translated into a worklist for the robots by the TeselaGen BUILD module. Must keep the robots happy.