This whole endeavour is folly: the idea that a megabyte of data can replicate a terabyte of DNA ia absurd on its face. But as long as it gets the funding ...
"He gave us eyes to see them ..."
To go along with “computational biology” you’d have to accept that that first bit of life, a complete living organism, not only happened on its own - but had the full program to build the next several billion more - already coded into it.
Then you’ve have to believe that on top of it all, that original happenstance bit of existence also has built-in operating instructions AND the incredible ability to self-improve.
None of the folks investing in these schemes never were engineers, apparently.