[BBF Standards] functional composition of BioBrick parts?

[Bryan Bishop]

On Sunday 27 January 2008, Julius B. Lucks wrote:
> Basically some system to avoid having to do ~NxN/2 comparisons to  
> test for compose-ability.

This suggests an underlying compliance ontology that is different from 
the parts catalog ontology. I am wary of classifying any part as 
absolutely in any one category, because in your model we would have to 
test with interactions from all other categories before firmly placing 
it in any given category -- so it would be in a 'partially unconfirmed' 
category of sorts, a sort of limbo, until a part can be tested with all 
main categories.

More interesting: can we design an automated testing environment, when 
experimental confirmation usually requires human eyes to confirm? If 
the answer is yes, then I suspect we will shortly be doing many 
massive-scale evolutionary experiments with large populations of 
bacteria with oligonucleotides inserted into their genome to test for 
compliance, maybe with nightly or weekly batches as scheduled over the 
servers?

- Bryan
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