[DIYbio] An idea I am having that I want feedback on

Hi All,

All my ideas on synthetic biology have been peculating in my head for years.  As a computer scientist I never understood how best to get into synthetic biology.  After years of studying this new engineering discipline I have made a decision:

I don't really care about lab work

I thought I did but once I got all the petri dishes, cell cultures, fume hoods etc... I realized I am just not a lab person.  What I really am is an ensilico lab person as Drew Endy put it when he came to my Diybio group at the Tech Shop.  He was desperate to get help with creating computer programs to automate lab like processes/research that could then later be tested in a real lab etc...  He said it is much quicker to do work with computer programs then raw lab work.  Here is what I have learned about synthetic biology computer programming needs:

*  Synbio has a great need to automate the research/hypothesis generation of optimized gene expression of proteins

*  Synbio has a great need to automate comparative analysis of existing genes/proteins/protein expression networks to create a desired protein (kind of like how the malaria drug was developed)

*  3d protein analysis etc...

Anyway my idea is to create a website where synthetic biologists can submit their programming needs and computer scientists can assist them.  I am curious about the best way to create such a website to make it easier for synthetic biologists to submit programming project requests/tasks.  What input fields would help synthetic biologists enter in their programming tasks/projects?  Do you feel such a site would as useful as I do?

-Tim BCSE, MSCS, MBA

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