Hey Omri,
No trashing going on. I'm sorry you felt that I was speaking negatively. I have the utmost respect for GC as we're all learning a lot from you guys. I was just stating facts In my previous message.
Folks seem to be interested in open source, web-based HTML5 apps these days so I figured it would be useful for the community to know that Synbiota has released a Beta DNA editor that works on all operating systems via the browser - even on a tablet.
I've personally had difficulty getting GenomeCompiler working on my Linux machine and I have read that others have had similar issues. I mention Synbiota's web-based app as a potential alternative solution that people can use if they are unable or unwilling to run Adobe Air on their systems.
I also mentioned the SPrize because as a Mozillian I know that there are folks out there in the Open Source community who are interested in developing tools for Synthetic Biology. We thought that it would be great for the entire Bio Community if we could somehow unify the Open Source development efforts towards a common goal that we can all benefit from.
Although Synbiota does not have a lot of money, we felt that it was worth scrounging up the funds to offer a series of small cash prizes as an incentive (wish we could offer millions like the XPrize). So far we have had a great response to the SPrize and even received our first code submission within the first 24 hours of the contest! We think this is pretty cool, and are excited to showcase the winning submissions in early October.
Thanks for the opportunity to clear things up Omri!
Regards,
Connor
P.S. Working together sounds like an interesting prospect! Feel free to chat with me via email/skype about this.
On Monday, July 2, 2012 4:17:41 AM UTC-4, Omri Drory wrote:
Hi Connor, I don't trash synbiota so don't trash us :-)Just to let people know - we both came out of Singularity university (at least synbiota CEO did) - we learned from the same people there (sprize is very much taken from peter diamandis book, both have Andrew Hessel visions in mind).I don't want to get into the religious wars between open/close free/paid software - enough to say we share the same goals of making the best tools in this field. We took different paths and we both play at our strength (like synbiota taken their weakness in fundraising and making it a strength in open source development, while we pay great people to develop).I say let the best program win - I do hope to work with synbiota in the future and I see we might have synergy between us. Who knows where this field us going and if a company could sustain itself at all? We believe and hope so but the road is long and uncertain. I rather have us work together then fight with each other.As for Genome Compiler - I started this because I was pissed off no one have built a good genetic engineering software platform yet. As long as I still feel this way (I still do - even we only started and have much to go) - I will continue with my company work. I want to produce very high level product, stable, beautiful, useful and with amazing costumer support. We raised money to do so and try to be a sustainable company to we could support and build the software indefinitely.
On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 8:27:16 PM UTC+3, Connor Dickie wrote:For those who are interested in an accessible, cross-platform DNA design tool, Synbiota's GENtle is worth checking out at http://synbiota.com - it's an Open Source HTML5/Javascript web-based app that works right in your browser, even on a tablet. No need to install or update. It's just a web-link away like Google or Wikipedia ;-)Like GenomeCompiler, there's a lot still to be added in terms of functionality, but it is already useful and is being used by a number of iGEM teams, DIYBio groups and University labs around the globe.Unlike GenomeCompiler, GENtle is built on web-standards and is open source (released under the Mozilla Public License 2.0). There is an active development community at GitHub (https://github.com/Synbiota/GENtle2 ) where anyone can get involved to help build out features.Just yesterday we announced the "SPrize" - a competition to incentivize the development of open source plug-ins for GENtle. Cash awards and global bragging rights are at stake!Check it out at:And feel free to contact me directly at connor@synbiota.com or +1 (416) 450-9519 if you have any questions, comments or concerns. Kudos are also welcome ;-)Regards,Connor DickieCo-Founder of SynbiotaMozilla WebFWD Fellow
On Friday, June 1, 2012 4:49:47 PM UTC-4, Ryguy wrote:I don't post much but it does seem like Genome Compiler's alpha release is out.
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