LIFE CIRCUIT BOARDS. “Andrew Ellington and Jared Ellefson of the University of Texas at Austin argued that a new breed of biologists was taking over the frontiers of science — a breed that views life forms and DNA much the way the technology wizards who spawned IBM, Cisco, and Apple once looked at basic electronics, transistors, and circuits.”
http://www.cfr.org/united-states/biologys-brave-new-world/p31894