Synthetic biology is accelerating, but most labs still rely on fragmented, manual systems that cannot track the rapid iteration of strains, plasmids, or protocols. This creates costly errors, lost context, and irreproducible work. The white paper introduces CellRepo as a purpose‑built solution: a biological version control system that captures every change with structured, timestamped, and attributable commits, thus bringing software‑grade reliability to experimental biology.
Built on git principles but adapted for living systems, CellRepo enables full traceability through repositories, branches, templates, and merges, and links physical samples to digital records using DNA‑based Genosignatures. This creates an auditable chain of provenance across teams, labs, and institutions, transforming biological R&D from opaque and error‑prone to collaborative, reproducible, and trustworthy.
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