How do you get to understand – and then alter – the genome of yeast?

By rebuilding it from scratch, with some hooks built in to make it programmable. What we sometimes call “enhancement points” in the ERP world.

And once you’ve done that, what can you do with yeast? Well, besides its traditional applications in making beer and bread, it’s already used to produce medicines and other useful biologicals.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610180/why-redesigning-the-humble-yeast-could-kick-off-the-next-industrial-revolution/