Patent ID: 7858342

Claim:
An apparatus for extra-cellular peptide synthesis comprising: two or more sources of charged tRNA, each source positioned to sequentially provide one or more charged tRNA to two or more first locations; one or more sources of biological assemblers, each source positioned to sequentially provide one or more biological assemblers to the two or more first locations; and one or more computing units configured to control the two or more sources of charged tRNA and the one or more sources of biological assemblers, wherein the one or more computing units are further configured to, receive information representative of one or more target peptide structures; determine one or more temporal-spatial parameters for synthesizing one or more peptides based at least partially on the data, wherein the one or more temporal-spatial parameters are at least partially based on at least one of a target peptide sequence or a target nucleic acid sequence; and at least partially based on the temporal-spatial parameters, direct each source of charged tRNA to sequentially provide the one or more charged tRNA to the two or more first locations and direct each source of biological assemblers to sequentially provide the one or more biological assemblers to the two or more first locations one type of charged tRNA at a time sequentially.