[BBF Standards] BioHackathon, or Characterization Challenge

[John Cumbers]

>>How about focusing on the characterization of existing biological
systems ?

This is a really cool idea, perhaps we could have one on each coast, and one
in London/Europe too?  All running together with video link/chat.  I offer
our Brown iGEM lab as a potential host lab, although it is not so big can
only hold ~12 at a squeeze.  Perhaps we could find an alternative venue
outside the lab environment, e.g we could each brought along different
pieces of equipment, or rent a lab for the day...

cheers,
John


On Feb 9, 2008 6:57 AM, Vincent Rouilly <vincent.rouilly at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
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