From Biohack

In relation to the overall roadmap, the meat on a stick (artificial meat) project seems to be going well. An understanding of the chemical reactions that process oxygen, carbon, nitrogen and other elements necessary to meet human food requirements, can allow us to more directly interface with starlight and molecular clouds for our matter/energy requirements. Meat is a type of growth in cow due to digestion of autotrophs. The digestion of autotrophs is biochemical in nature due to the stomach, the small intestine and the large intestine, and apparently bacteria grow in these gastrointestinal organs both in cow and hu. The characterization and sequencing of these bacteria will therefore allow us to figure out what chemical reactions are taking place that allow matter/energy to become food.

At the root of the food-energy chain is the star, and then there is photosynthesis (see artificial photosynthesis), and then the autotroph is eaten by a herbivore or other organism, and eventually the matter/energy makes it all the way to the hu system for further digestion and entropic use via heat dissipation in the brain and whatnot. The stomach-bacteria project falls in the range of the organisms that process the matter and energy, not nucleosynthesis (how the elements are formed from hydrogen in the stars), and not artificial photosynthesis or solar cells.

TODO

• How to classify all of the important bacteria living inside the cow & human stomachs.
• Biochemical pathways for the digestion of food (anabolic v. catabolic)
• Sequencing of the bacteria
• General outline of the research methods.