alterlab-ginkgo-cloud — independently scanned and version-tracked by SaferSkills.
SaferSkills independently audited alterlab-ginkgo-cloud (Agent Skill) and scored it 100/100 (green). The audit ran 55 deterministic rules across Security, Supply Chain, Maintenance, Transparency, and Community; it found 0 high-severity and 0 lower-severity findings. The full rule-by-rule trace and per-finding evidence are below. Free, methodology-open.
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Every scanned point with the score it earned and what moved between them.
First recorded scan — no prior version to compare against.
The primary manifest — the file an agent reads to learn what this artifact does.
Ginkgo Cloud Lab (https://cloud.ginkgo.bio) provides remote access to Ginkgo Bioworks' autonomous lab infrastructure. Protocols are executed on Reconfigurable Automation Carts (RACs) -- modular units with robotic arms, maglev sample transport, and industrial-grade software spanning 70+ instruments.
The platform also includes EstiMate, an AI agent that accepts human-language protocol descriptions and returns feasibility assessments and pricing for custom workflows beyond the listed protocols.
| Scenario | Use Instead |
|---|---|
| Submitting designed proteins to the Adaptyv Bio Foundry for binding/expression/stability assays | alterlab-adaptyv |
| Writing a protocol for your own Opentrons OT-2/Flex robot | alterlab-opentrons |
| Scripting your own multi-vendor liquid handlers (Hamilton, Tecan) | alterlab-pylabrobot |
| Publishing or finding a written protocol with a DOI | alterlab-protocolsio |
Prices and turnaround below are as listed on cloud.ginkgo.bio on 2026-09-23; they change, so confirm on the protocol page before quoting them.
Rapid go/no-go expression screening using reconstituted E. coli CFPS. Submit a linear DNA sequence (up to 1800 bp; .fasta, .csv, .xlsx, .txt, .pdf, or .zip) and receive expression confirmation, baseline titer (mg/L), and initial purity with virtual gel images.
DoE-based optimization across up to 24 conditions per protein (lysates, temperatures, chaperones, disulfide enhancers, cofactors). Designed for difficult-to-express and membrane proteins.
Turn a design made in the Design Tool (upload an image or paint freehand) into fluorescent bacterial artwork: colors are mapped to a 7-strain fluorescent E. coli palette and printed by acoustic dispensing on an Echo 1536 layout (32×48 dots; a 6144 layout is announced as coming soon). Delivered as high-res UV photographs (TIFF/JPEG).
The catalog has grown beyond the three protocols above. As rendered on 2026-09-23 it also listed IVT mRNA/circRNA qPCR; cell-free and E. coli expression with His-/Strep-tag purification and A280 or LabChip readouts (including minibinder variants); HiBiT luminescence expression readouts; Pichia expression (LabChip); cell-free thermal shift; Echo-MS; SPR kinetics (beta); and plate-reader method onboarding. Open each protocol page for its inputs, price, and turnaround — this skill has no detailed reference for them yet.
For protocols not listed above, use the EstiMate chat to describe a custom protocol in plain language and receive compatibility assessment and pricing.
Before submitting sequences, check your institution's rules on sharing unpublished or controlled sequences with an external provider, and follow biosafety review requirements for the constructs involved.
Access Ginkgo Cloud Lab at https://cloud.ginkgo.bio. Account creation or institutional access may be required. Contact Ginkgo at [email protected] for access questions.
Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.
~30 seconds. Free. No account. Every finding cites a rule and a line of evidence.