Re: [DIYbio] Re: Open source web sequence/plasmid viewer/editor components?

> You literally just described peer review.

Maybe you should start your own journal and appoint yourself chairman of the peer review committee.  Then you can demand the firmware source of every thermocycler, timer, transilluminator, imaging system, thermostat, etc..  In a few years, when you've accumulated a few 800 page papers that meet your standard, you can publish your first issue.  I'm sure it will be a big hit.  ;)

Don't forget to include things like diagrams of their heating and lighting systems, lighting frequency, color temp., mechanical details of every cog and wheel in any timing devices used, and so forth (obviously source code for any digital devices).  You might find it hard to get details on the etching masks for every IC used in these devices, but you certainly can't publish something without these details.  The ICs could be discontinued and you'd have to etch exact replacements to have any hope of the perfect replicability we are now demanding.  Perhaps with special permission and unanimous consent of the review board you could allow logic diagrams to substitute in certain cases, as long as the complete datasheet is included and the functionality has been independently verified.

Perhaps with your strong leadership on this issue we can get rid of all these garbage papers with poisoned secret sauce that are currently being published.