[BBF Standards] BioHackathon

[Jason Kelly]

> I don't mean to hijack the concept, but I'd be interested in a
> biohackathon a la barcamp for science -- bring all of our equipment in
> a van, load up a few team members, and get hacking. ;) Maybe the next
> iGEM can be an unconference?

I think the idea of a "hackathon" (e.g. get a lot of people in one
place at one time and write code until you pass out) would be a great
thing for wet lab biology some day.  However, the slow timescale of
laboratory work currently makes this pretty unreasonable, so maybe
something in between would be a design-a-thon.  A bunch of people in a
room designing biological systems, sharing ideas, debugging, etc...
just need a bunch of computers and whiteboards....

or maybe there's some biology that could be done on that timescale,
would be interested to hear suggestions.

thanks,
jason



On Feb 8, 2008 6:05 PM, Bryan Bishop <kanzure at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday 08 February 2008, Jason Morrison wrote:
> > Not sure what the overlap in interest is, but there's apparently a
> > BioHackathon going on next week, http://hackathon.dbcls.jp/ with some
> > interesting development going on.  It looks like it focuses on
> > OpenBio* (BioPerl, BioPython, BioJava, BioRuby, [etc?]) development,
> > as well as BioMOBY development:
>
> I don't mean to hijack the concept, but I'd be interested in a
> biohackathon a la barcamp for science -- bring all of our equipment in
> a van, load up a few team members, and get hacking. ;) Maybe the next
> iGEM can be an unconference?
>
> - Bryan
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