Re: [DIYbio] Re: DIYbio projects

Patents.

Simon Quellen Field <sfield@scitoys.com> wrote:

>Why not make a business out of it?
>A Kickstarter project, and pricing that can support a full-time person
>to do
>the work, including the quality control.
>Sell kits to schools, etc.
>
>If you made a lot of blotted paper, then presumably the QC could be
>distributed
>over the whole lot -- test one out of 1,000 postcards, and offer a
>guarantee --
>money back or a new postcard.
>
>An automated web store with outsourced fulfillment leaves the person
>running it
>with lots of time for preparing the parts, writing up web pages that
>describe how
>to use them, and marketing. But if fulfillment is just printing out a
>label
>and
>sticking it on an envelope from a postage meter, in-house fulfillment
>is
>pretty
>easy.
>
>Offer to make up special (non-top-48) bricks for a reasonably stiff
>price,
>and then
>make a few thousand postcards and add them to the catalog.
>
>And if BioCurious wanted to teach classes in how to prepare the parts,
>and
>part of
>the class was QC and blotting 1,000 postcards, then they could turn
>that
>into a
>profit center. Charge for the class, and keep a cup of the QC'd part
>for
>blotting.
>Win twice.
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>On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Mackenzie Cowell <mac@diybio.org>
>wrote:
>
>> Getting 1400 "standardized" biobrick parts is a neat experience, but
>as
>> others have noted, many do not work or are poorly documented. It
>would be
>> great if a team put together an unofficial mini-distribution of the
>top 48
>> standard genetic parts: the best of the best. The ones that are the
>most
>> commonly used, have the best documentation, and together can be used
>to
>> create a variety of different systems.
>>
>> For instance, a library of control elements (promoters, rbs,
>terminators)
>> with some dynamic range, a plasmid library, some reporter genes, a
>couple
>> of different biosensors.
>>
>> Let's start the top-48 list. What parts would you love to have today
>that
>> are also well documented and have been show to work?
>>
>> I think my all-time favorite part is... bba_r0040.
>>
>> Mac
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Cory Tobin <cory.tobin@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>>
>>> > I had a disturbing conversation with Randy Rettberg last year at
>iGEM
>>> where
>>> > he practically put his fingers in his ears and said "La La I can't
>hear
>>> you"
>>> > when I asked if Genspace could contribute parts to the BioBricks
>>> library.
>>> > Apparently anyone connected with DIYbio is taboo, at least on
>paper.
>>>
>>> It's funny/sad because on their website they extol concepts like
>>> "sharing" and "freedom" but when confronted about their lack of
>>> sharing they give everyone the silent treatment.
>>>
>>>
>>> > But they would probably flip out if we were to officially share
>them
>>> with
>>> > everyone. This needs to be addressed and rectified, hopefully when
>the
>>> > library changes hands.
>>>
>>> From what I understand the Foundation has no plans to freely
>>> distribute/sell their distributions to anyone outside the official
>>> iGEM teams or university labs any time soon. The only way DIY
>people
>>> will be able to get parts is through some unofficial distribution
>>> method.
>>>
>>> A couple years ago a few friends and I hashed out a plan to
>replicate
>>> the iGEM distribution that year. It turned out to be a lot more
>>> tedious and monotonous labor than we had hoped. Transforming and
>>> minipreping in bulk was actually a breeze. The difficult part was
>the
>>> quality control, which was basically a lot of restriction digests.
>I
>>> could never come up with a method for rapidly checking the
>correctness
>>> of the plasmids in parallel.
>>>
>>> One could imagine a system where individuals who happen to get their
>>> hands on some parts do quick minipreps in bulk, blot the liquid on
>>> paper and distribute the paper to the recipients with no guarantee
>>> that the parts are correct. The quality control would then be in
>the
>>> hands of the recipients. It's not the ideal situation but for now
>>> it's probably the only way for outsiders to get parts without any
>one
>>> person dedicating their life to replicating the parts.
>>>
>>>
>>> -cory
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