October 2013
Intermediate to advanced
41 pages
49m
English
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Welcome to BioCoder
Welcome to the readers, welcome to the editors, welcome to the contributors. We’re all glad to have you along for this trip. A few words on what this is for, how it started, and perhaps where it’s headed. Though we don’t really know where it’s headed. We’ll find that out on the journey.
I’ve been following biology for a few years now. I’m not a biologist, and haven’t taken biology since 7th or 8th grade, over 40 years ago. But I have watched it from a distance, and increasingly, it feels to me like something that’s about to explode: it feels a lot like computing did in 1975, before there were PCs, but when a friend of mine got an 8008 and a used teletype and built a computer in his dorm room. That computing event signaled a lot of things. In ’75, computing was arguably already 25 years old. But up to that point, it had been done by people with PhDs, people who wore white lab coats, people who had inconceivably large amounts of funding and built machines the size of houses. What my friend did was demonstrate that computing wasn’t the property of a priesthood with lab coats: it was something that anyone could do.
We’re now seeing that same shift in biology. Students are making glowing E. coli, both at community labs like Genspace and BioCurious and in high schools. iGEM exposes thousands to the idea of building with standard biological parts. We’re seeing community laboratories spring up all over the world: literally on every continent ...
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