Common use of Advanced Tools and Capabilities for Generalizable Platforms (ATCG) Program Background Clause in Contracts

Advanced Tools and Capabilities for Generalizable Platforms (ATCG) Program Background. Current approaches to engineering biology rely on an ad hoc, laborious, trial-and-error process, wherein one successful project often does not translate to enabling subsequent new designs. As a result, the state of the art development cycle for engineering a new biologically manufactured product often takes 7+ years and tens to hundreds of millions of dollars (e.g. microbial production of artemisinic acid for the treatment of malaria and the non-petroleum-based production 1, 3-propanediol). The impact of current approaches is two-fold. First, the number of new entrants and innovators into the biomanufacturing space is immediately limited – few have the expertise, capital and/or time necessary to develop and engineer a new product. Second, combined with the complexity of biological systems, an ad hoc approach results in one-off efforts limited to modifying only a small set of genes and constructing simple, isolated genetic circuits and metabolic pathways. Consequently, while progress has been made, industry is constrained to producing only a tiny fraction of the vast number of possible chemicals, materials, and functional systems that would be enabled by the ability to truly engineer biology. A new approach is needed. This new approach is Living Foundries: develop and apply an engineering framework to biology that decouples biological design from fabrication, yields design rules and tools, and manages biological complexity through abstraction and standardization. One analogy is that Living Foundries aims to do for biological design what verylarge-scale integration (VLSI) did for integrated circuits. Applying an engineering framework to biology will remove barriers to researchers outside the biological sciences, bringing diverse expertise and new methods to biological design. The best innovations will introduce new architectures and tools that will form the foundational technology for engineering biology. The vision of Living Foundries is one where new and multiple cellular functions are readily constructed, combined, and controlled by an integrated genetic circuitry. The ultimate effect of which will be to open up the full space of biologically produced materials and systems. To achieve this, new tools, technologies and methodologies that directly address our current limitations and expand our capabilities must be developed. The outcome should be an open technology platform that integrates these tools and capabilities, allowing new designs to rapidly move from conception to execution. Advanced Tools and Capabilities for Generalizable Platforms, (ATCG) seeks translatable tools that can serve as parts of an “end-to-end platform” to support rapid, specific in its goals: DARPA seeks new technology to enable low-cost and rapid DNA synthesis and assembly, especially to shorten the design-test cycle surrounding the ambitious constructs that characterize the broadest visions in modern synthetic biology. Enclosure 1 Conformed Copy P00012 Agreement No. HR0011-12-3-0006 Attachment 1 Task A [*]

Advanced Tools and Capabilities for Generalizable Platforms (ATCG) Program Background. Current approaches to engineering biology rely on an ad hoc, laborious, trial-and-error process, wherein one successful project often does not translate to enabling subsequent new designs. As a result, the state of the art development cycle for engineering a new biologically manufactured product often takes 7+ years and tens to hundreds of millions of dollars (e.g. microbial production of artemisinic acid for the treatment of malaria and the non-petroleum-based production 1, 3-propanediol). The impact of current approaches is two-fold. First, the number of new entrants and innovators into the biomanufacturing space is immediately limited – few have the expertise, capital and/or time necessary to develop and engineer a new product. Second, combined with the complexity of biological systems, an ad hoc approach results in one-off efforts limited to modifying only a small set of genes and constructing simple, isolated genetic circuits and metabolic pathways. Consequently, while progress has been made, industry is constrained to producing only a tiny fraction of the vast number of possible chemicals, materials, and functional systems that would be enabled by the ability to truly engineer biology. A new approach is needed. This new approach is Living Foundries: develop and apply an engineering framework to biology that decouples biological design from fabrication, yields design rules and tools, and manages biological complexity through abstraction and standardization. One analogy is that Living Foundries aims to do for biological design what verylarge-scale integration (VLSI) did for integrated circuits. Applying an engineering framework to biology will remove barriers to researchers outside the biological sciences, bringing diverse expertise and new methods to biological design. The best innovations will introduce new architectures and tools that will form the foundational technology for engineering biology. The vision of Living Foundries is one where new and multiple cellular functions are readily constructed, combined, and controlled by an integrated genetic circuitry. The ultimate effect of which will be to open up the full space of biologically produced materials and systems. To achieve this, new tools, technologies and methodologies that directly address our current limitations and expand our capabilities must be developed. The outcome should be an open technology platform that integrates these tools and capabilities, allowing new designs to rapidly move from conception to execution. Advanced Tools and Capabilities for Generalizable Platforms, (ATCG) seeks translatable tools that can serve as parts of an “end-to-end platform” to support rapid, specific in its goals: DARPA seeks new technology to enable low-cost and rapid DNA synthesis and assembly, especially to shorten the design-test cycle surrounding the ambitious constructs that characterize the broadest visions in modern synthetic biology. Enclosure 1 Conformed Copy P00012 Agreement No. HR0011-12-3-0006 Attachment 1 Task A * Task Objective: * Milestone: * Metrics/Completion Criteria: * Deliverables: * [*]] Certain portions denoted with an asterisk have been omitted and filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Confidential treatment has been requested with respect to the omitted portions. This subtask completes the Milestone outlined above. *

Advanced Tools and Capabilities for Generalizable Platforms (ATCG) Program Background. Current approaches to engineering biology rely on an ad hoc, laborious, trial-and-error process, wherein one successful project often does not translate to enabling subsequent new designs. As a result, the state of the art development cycle for engineering a new biologically manufactured product often takes 7+ years and tens to hundreds of millions of dollars (e.g. microbial production of artemisinic acid for the treatment of malaria and the non-petroleum-based production 1, 3-propanediol). The impact of current approaches is two-fold. First, the number of new entrants and innovators into the biomanufacturing space is immediately limited – few have the expertise, capital and/or time necessary to develop and engineer a new product. Second, combined with the complexity of biological systems, an ad hoc approach results in one-off efforts limited to modifying only a small set of genes and constructing simple, isolated genetic circuits and metabolic pathways. Consequently, while progress has been made, industry is constrained to producing only a tiny fraction of the vast number of possible chemicals, materials, and functional systems that would be enabled by the ability to truly engineer biology. A new approach is needed. This new approach is Living Foundries: develop and apply an engineering framework to biology that decouples biological design from fabrication, yields design rules and tools, and manages biological complexity through abstraction and standardization. One analogy is that Living Foundries aims to do for biological design what verylargevery large-scale integration (VLSI) did for integrated circuits. Applying an engineering framework to biology will remove barriers to researchers outside the biological sciences, bringing diverse expertise and new methods to biological design. The best innovations will introduce new architectures and tools that will form the foundational technology for engineering biology. The vision of Living Foundries is one where new and multiple cellular functions are readily constructed, combined, and controlled by an integrated genetic circuitry. The ultimate effect of which will be to open up the full space of biologically produced materials and systems. To achieve this, new tools, technologies and methodologies that directly address our current limitations and expand our capabilities must be developed. The outcome should be an open technology platform that integrates these tools and capabilities, allowing new designs to rapidly move from conception to execution. Advanced Tools and Capabilities for Generalizable Platforms, (ATCG) seeks translatable tools that can serve as parts of an “end-to-end platform” to support rapid, specific in its goals: DARPA seeks new technology to enable low-cost and rapid DNA synthesis and assembly, especially to shorten the design-test cycle surrounding the ambitious constructs that characterize the broadest visions in modern synthetic biology. Enclosure 1 Conformed Copy P00012 P00010 Agreement No. HR0011-12-3-0006 Attachment 1 Task A [*] Task Objective:[*] Milestone: [*] Metrics/Completion Criteria:[*]

Advanced Tools and Capabilities for Generalizable Platforms (ATCG) Program Background. Current approaches to engineering biology rely on an ad hoc, laborious, trial-and-error process, wherein one successful project often does not translate to enabling subsequent new designs. As a result, the state of the art development cycle for engineering a new biologically manufactured product often takes 7+ years and tens to hundreds of millions of dollars (e.g. microbial production of artemisinic acid for the treatment of malaria and the non-petroleum-based production 1, 3-propanediol). The impact of current approaches is two-fold. First, the number of new entrants and innovators into the biomanufacturing space is immediately limited – few have the expertise, capital and/or time necessary to develop and engineer a new product. Second, combined with the complexity of biological systems, an ad hoc approach results in one-off efforts limited to modifying only a small set of genes and constructing simple, isolated genetic circuits and metabolic pathways. Consequently, while progress has been made, industry is constrained to producing only a tiny fraction of the vast number of possible chemicals, materials, and functional systems that would be enabled by the ability to truly engineer biology. A new approach is needed. This new approach is Living Foundries: develop and apply an engineering framework to biology that decouples biological design from fabrication, yields design rules and tools, and manages biological complexity through abstraction and standardization. One analogy is that Living Foundries aims to do for biological design what verylarge-scale integration (VLSI) did for integrated circuits. Applying an engineering framework to biology will remove barriers to researchers outside the biological sciences, bringing diverse expertise and new methods to biological design. The best innovations will introduce new architectures and tools that will form the foundational technology for engineering biology. The vision of Living Foundries is one where new and multiple cellular functions are readily constructed, combined, and controlled by an integrated genetic circuitry. The ultimate effect of which will be to open up the full space of biologically produced materials and systems. To achieve this, new tools, technologies and methodologies that directly address our current limitations and expand our capabilities must be developed. The outcome should be an open technology platform that integrates these tools and capabilities, allowing new designs to rapidly move from conception to execution. Advanced Tools and Capabilities for Generalizable Platforms, (ATCG) seeks translatable tools that can serve as parts of an “end-to-end platform” to support rapid, specific in its goals: DARPA seeks new technology to enable low-cost and rapid DNA synthesis and assembly, especially to shorten the design-test cycle surrounding the ambitious constructs that characterize the broadest visions in modern synthetic biology. Enclosure 1 Conformed Copy P00012 P00011 Agreement No. HR0011-12-3-0006 Attachment 1 Task A [*] Task Objective: [*] [*] Milestone: [*] Metrics/Completion Criteria: [*] Deliverables: [*]