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

I am on oDesk also, and would love to be able to find biotech jobs on it, or
any other freelance sites. I haven't seen one, though. Since there is so
much to sift through on those sites, one place that people can go to for
this specific purpose would be absolutely perfect.

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From: Nathan McCorkle
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 9:48 AM
To: diybio
Subject: Re: [DIYbio] An idea I am having that I want feedback on

I have an account on oDesk and have done some programming and
biotech-related work through there. I wish more bio/sci/engi
programming jobs were posted there (or somewhere like that).
Personally I'm against building another website, an oDesk clone, since
that would just be reinventing the wheel. Maybe you can figure out a
way to advertise oDesk to all these scientists who need programming
help. I'm a biotech major with a minor in bioinformatics and 15+ years
of linux and programming.

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 3:00 PM, William Heath <wgheath@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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