[DIYbio] Re: [biocurious] Sequencer teardown

What we're willing to do, with the generous help and assistance of
Illumina and their Chief Engineer, is take apart a previous generation
sequencer and use it to explain the process of genome sequencing and
get firsthand insight into the design decisions that they made in
scaling up from this model to the current generation of machines.

This machine was delivered as surplus hardware components and that is
all we are tearing down.

I have no idea if there are legalities that we could be running afoul
of, if this were a competitive or adversarial situation with Illumina
we might have to worry about that, but as it happens we are in
communication with them and thus if there is any ambiguity about what
they intended for us to use or release we will simply ask. And it
doesn't currently seem like there is any software worth asking them
about, which I'm sure is not accidental.

Derek

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Bryan Bishop <kanzure@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Derek Jacoby <derekja@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> So sorry, but there won't be any ROM to dump this time either. I don't
>> think that we'd be within our rights to distribute their code anyway,
>> but as it happens there isn't anything interesting enough there to be
>> worth asking the question.
>
>
> How about dumping the stuff from the computer, then? There's no way there's
> zero software in this thing. Also, you're probably breaking weird
> copyright/patent laws by doing the disassembly anyway. Don't quote me on
> that, but you should double check what you're willing to do if you're going
> to worry about that in the first place.
>
>
> - Bryan
> http://heybryan.org/
> 1 512 203 0507

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