[Hplusroadmap] Biohacking

[Bryan Bishop]

On Friday 15 February 2008, Chris Caston wrote:
> Could open source synthetic biology also end up being the basis of
> man made molecular manufacturing?

Bingo. Biomolecular manufacturing can be controlled by DNA synthesis and 
insertion vectors. Then, with an understanding of protein folding, we 
can begin to design proteins and then render both digitally and 
physically the DNA sequence that would result in the CADed protein. I 
call this bootstrapping (and I think a few others do too) and I threw 
up some notes over on the wiki a few days ago.

http://biohack.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Roadmap#Bootstrapping_molecular_nanotechnology_.28MNT.29_from_bacteria

> See bootstrapping. Basically, the idea is to rewrite bacterial genomes
> and translate the lifeforms over to MNT such that some sort of 
> bacteria programming language can be used to do a sort of 
> MapReduce/Hadoop for parallel distributed p2p manufacturing 
> operations. Not only does this theoretical language have to be thought 
> of first, but a method of hijacking the genome to generate a synthetic 
> creation is an interesting problem as well. 

See also:
http://biohack.sf.net/wiki/index.php/Amorphous_computing

- Bryan
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