Re: [DIYbio] Re: DIY DNA synthesis?

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> You can never build a system yourself that will compete in a cost
> effective manner with IDT, Operon, Sigma and others.

Well, we'll see about that! Just, when I have more time to hack. :)
- - Cathal

On 04/02/2013 02:23 PM, J Adams wrote:
> Hi Cathy;
>
> Very nice response...Even as a DIY'r, when it is cheaper to simply
> purchase than do yourself, then purchase. Let your energy be spent
> doing things that have not been done before, or if they have that
> you can do cheaper, faster or better than existing technologies.
>
> DNA synthesis is sold for almost the cost of the raw materials.
> You can never build a system yourself that will compete in a cost
> effective manner with IDT, Operon, Sigma and others. These guys
> have had years of experience optimizing their processes and they
> buy raw materials in such bulk quantities that their costs per unit
> are almost zero!
>
> So, it's best to spend your time fixing problems that you
> can...(but, who knows, maybe there is a way that I've or nobody
> else has every thought about, just with this technology, since it's
> been around 30 or more years with a lot of very bright people
> working in the field for a long time) it's highly improbable!
>
> My 2 cents in support of Cathy's response.
>
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> J Adams
>
> -----Original Message----- From: diybio@googlegroups.com
> [mailto:diybio@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Cathal Garvey Sent:
> Tuesday, April 02, 2013 5:21 AM To: diybio@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: [DIYbio] Re: DIY DNA synthesis?
>
> 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-chemis
>>
>>
try-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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