Re: [DIYbio] Re: Meeting times

I heart this post. For a while I thought biobricks and the biological parts database was great! ....that was until I realized there was no possibility of being able to contribute to or use them. But a lot of you are onto something. Develop the same concept on a grassroots level. If the Biological parts database is UNIX then whats stopping a dedicated group from making Linux?

On Monday, October 1, 2012 12:26:02 AM UTC-7, Cathal wrote:

Last I'd heard, Randy was still averse to allowing DIY teams, for fear
of having his brand "polluted" by biohacking's popularity.

Oh, also because it would draw attention to the fact that his
widely-called-open repository is anything but.

Oh, and because loads of stuff in the parts registry is patented and
created without a license, but gets away with it as long as it's only
for the Ivory Tower teams.

Oh and..

Essentially, we are better off starting our own parts repository; Cloud
Cultures FTW!

If you haven't heard of the GOODIYbio competition, now's a good time to
familiarise yourself. It's a recently launched open source biology
competition, and there are categories for hardware, software and
wetware, with the "win" tiebreaker being for the most reproducible project.

Wetware projects highly recommended! ;)
http://www.goodiybio.org/

On 27/09/12 17:04, Bryan Bishop wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Mitchell N <m.nor...@ymail.com> wrote:
>> Don't know if it's been mentioned at all but do we want to register as a
>> igem group so we can have access to the parts registry?
>> http://partsregistry.org/Main_Page
>
> I thought iGEM doesn't allow DIY groups. This is why DIY folks have to
> team up with a university to get accepted as a team. But did this
> change? I remember Randy Ruttberg making a fuss about things.. dunno.
>
> - Bryan
> http://heybryan.org/
> 1 512 203 0507
>

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