[BBF Standards] BioHackathon, or Characterization Challenge

[Vincent Rouilly]

Hi,


the idea of a regular BioHackathon is really cool.
It would boost a lot the community spirit (like the iGEM Jamboree).  
It could as well help to build a critical mass to achieve great things.

As Jason said, building biological system still takes too long for  
such 1-day-type of event.
How about focusing on the characterization of existing biological  
systems ?

You get 50-100 people probing an already existing piece of DNA (or a  
mutation library of it) . Maybe they explore different working  
conditions (temperature, PH, type of chemical stimuli, ...)
The BioHackathon becomes a 'Bio-Characterization Challenge'. At the  
end, data and protocols are collected, everything is shared, and open  
to further analysis by the rest of the community.

Prior to meeting-up, the community could go through a vote to select  
the piece(s) of DNA on which they want to focus during the next event.
I would love having a first meeting on 'Characterization of inducible  
promoter(s)'

Vincent.