Re: [DIYbio] Re: DIY DNA synthesis?

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This issue crops up again and again; is it DIY if you use convenient
higher-level-abstraction-X?

My opinion is that we should aspire to being *capable* of doing
everything from the ground up, firing our own bricks from sludge, as
it were, but that we shouldn't feel *compelled* to when we don't need to.

So, while I avail happily of DNA synthesis services, because doing it
myself would be very difficult/expensive using presently available
methods and equipment, I aspire to being *able* to do DIY DNA
synthesis one way or another, someday. Even so, when I have a DIY DNA
synthesiser on my desk, I'll still probably order from a company
unless my synthesiser is improbably efficient and easy to use, for the
same reason I buy bricks from brick-sellers*.

*Actually I'd avoid buying bricks because their manufacture is so
polluting; were I to build a house today I'd probably use straw-bale
walls for their low cost, high insulation value, ease of construction
and low environmental impact! DIY FTW.

On 04/01/2013 10:12 AM, Mega wrote:
>> A recent thread on the OpenPCR forum
> <http://openpcr.org/forums/index.php?p=/discussion/21/obtaining-chemistry-in-the-uk>
> was from a guy in the UK who found that the local companies who
> made PCR supplies, ranging from primers to /agarose/, would not
> sell him anything. As long as we're dependent on > biotech
> corporations for materials can we truly be "Do-It-Yourself"?
>
>
> When you build a house DIY and you don't burn the bricks from
> sludge - is it still DIY ?
>
>
> :D
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