[BBF Standards] safety and security standards

[Markus Schmidt]

The group dealing with safety and security standards would have to  
answer the question if working with parts, devices and systems in  
specific chassis organisms opens up new safety and security  
challenges, not yet covered by current biosafety and security rules  
and guidelines. You are right in saying that we probably cannot  
foresee all emergent properties, but I guess there should still be  
some kind of best practice to have the design and fabrication process  
safe enough.

For example: is it necessary to put parts, devices and systems into  
different safety or security categories? Do we need a safety/security  
category when describing bioparts? How can you report a safety issue  
you discoverd in a certain biocircuit that was not foreseen (emergent)  
so other people can learn from that experience.  Is it useful to  
integrate safety and security aspects into the design process so the  
design software automatically informs the designer in case the newly  
designed circuit exhibits certain safety (or security) problems? And  
so on..

Markus


Am 06.02.2008 um 05:04 schrieb Bryan Bishop:

> On Monday 04 February 2008, Markus Schmidt wrote:
>> - safety standards (security standards)
>> If yes I would be interested to join, if not may I ask if there is
>> anybody out there interested in joining a group on this issues?
>> Obviously the issues mentioned in the list are interrelated and to do
>>   some work on safety and security issues we would need to interact
>> with other groups as well, first of those dealing with the
>> - definition of a BioBrick part
>
> Do you mean a way to classify which parts maintain certain safety
> standards and which parts do not? We cannot ensure safety, since  
> safety
> assumes that there is no possibility for the emergence of novel
> functionality given different contexts, which you mention next (as
> follows).
>
>> but also those dealing with
>> - cellular environment, context, chassis (e.g., genotype, culture
>> conditions)
>> and of course others as the BBF undertaking is developing.
>> So please let me know if something is already going on or if you
>> would   like to join a group on that!
>
> This seems to warrant the definition of laboratory measurement
> utilities, their callobrations, and perhaps even their general  
> designs.
>
> - Bryan
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