Enter The Bionet
These images were used to make an explanatory video about how the bionet works for a global gathering of Synthetic Biologists. The technical basis of the bionet is the ability to barcode, archive, and track artifacts as they move through the world, along with an international agreement that updates standards and protocols for material exchange between researchers. While providing an intuitive way for scientists to store and share their material inventories, the bionet offers novel ways of organizing actions and information around biological subjects.
Most laboratories that work on genetic research put their materials in small plastic vials that are stored for long times in big freezers.
A barcode can be ascribed to the vial.
Which can tell you information about what is contained inside.
And can be tracked as inventory within a laboratory using an architectural storage paradigm.
The information can let you know the content’s genetics, where it first came from, and who has manipulated it along its path.
And can be used to search and connect with other researchers, institutions, and resources that are working on similar things.
Making it easier to find and share materials and their information between people.
Making it easier to find and share materials and their information between people.
Using intuitive and available tools.
To help track materials and information within a laboratory as well.
The Bionet opens up new forms of subjective languages for utility in both description and organization of biology.