Nah, you would not do any digging in code if you are not paid to do that and that is not your responsibility - not to mention if you have any access and rights to do so by the company you are employed. And sometimes that is exactly the solution, that digging in the code is not in the contract and they all know too well, that making different contract simply is too expensive. That is why sometimes it is better to just write a new software in place, than deal with something that has licence and contractual restrictions. The main difference here is that your organism is irreplaceable(at this stage) and the electrical flow that built it from DNA is not part of tools of any specialists.
It is the same as everywhere - if your issue is very specific and UNIQUE and not known to available specialist, you are becoming specialist of the issue with all your knowledge and need to navigate and that includes finding specialist that actually can deal with the issue, unless you consider to become also medical specialist, which would give you insight on the mentioned problems in system. Well, there was an idea that computer scientists should have become part of different fields to add their knowledge to boost those fields, so you are welcomed to do that, I guess. I think that idea about cross-linking fields with IT specialists is on a right track, but it requires actual effort as well.
It is the same as everywhere - if your issue is very specific and UNIQUE and not known to available specialist, you are becoming specialist of the issue with all your knowledge and need to navigate and that includes finding specialist that actually can deal with the issue, unless you consider to become also medical specialist, which would give you insight on the mentioned problems in system. Well, there was an idea that computer scientists should have become part of different fields to add their knowledge to boost those fields, so you are welcomed to do that, I guess. I think that idea about cross-linking fields with IT specialists is on a right track, but it requires actual effort as well.