[Hplusroadmap] Re: [tt] [SALT] Decoding and recoding life (Craig Venter talk)

[Bryan Bishop]

On Tuesday 26 February 2008, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> [tt] [SALT] Decoding and recoding life (Craig Venter talk)

I didn't find the article useful. However, here's my brief outline for 
decoding and recoding life, in nucleotides. (1) You have to decode. 
Look at nanopore synthesis. I have a list of researchers that you can 
hit up over at http://biohack.sf.net/wiki/index.php/Nanopore and (2) 
you have to be able to store all of the data (3 billion bp or nt), this 
is getting simpler. Then there's (3) getting it back in DNA form again, 
which is where DNA synthesis comes in, a task that Venter seems to 
excel in (probably due to money and his ability to run through many 
projects) -- but there are open source alternatives. It looks like 
nanopores/STM-DNA machines are what we should be focusing on (or an 
open source gel electrophoresis machine). 
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