Garage Metagenomics
The BioWeatherMap project, led by DIYbio member Jason Bobe, is developing a ~$5 kit that will let users identify thousands of the microbes present in or on a given sample or surface. The kit helps the...
View Articlebetter web history
I rarely refer to my web browser’s history. It has a low signal to noise. It seems like the most literal implementation of the notion of “browsing history”. It has no notion of what I was looking for,...
View ArticleProblem: sequencing a heterologous mix of 16s PCR products
Possible solution: Use gel electrophoresis to separate the DNAs. Temperature Gradient Gel Electrophoresis (TGGE) and Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis (DGGE) DGGE of small ribosomal subunit...
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Building an example BioWeatherMap dataset
I want to make an example “BioWeatherMap” based on existing metagenomic data, so I’m looking for a dataset of 16s ribosomal dna (rDNA) sampled from tens or hundreds of environmental locations. First...
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The Web Ecology Project pub 01
Over the last few weeks I’ve been putting my shoulder into ruby, twitter analytics, basic statistics, and visualization along with the fine young minds of the nascent Web Ecology Project. One of the...
View ArticleThe Upshot of Diagnostic Kits
As part of the interview process, Carolina Rossini asked me to write a short report on “The Problems of Patents on Diagnostic Testing Kits” (pdf). Later that summer, I read Steven Levy’s “Hackers: The...
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Culturing bioluminescent microbes, part 1
I’ve been fascinated by bioluminescence from the first time I saw pictures of deep-sea angler fish. Since then, I’ve seen dozens of live bioluminescent creatures at the Boston aquarium and cultured E....
View Articlemultitouch $50 microscope
Testing a multitouch interface to a 2-axis microscope stage powered by cheap servo motors, controlled by an arduino, processing, and TUIO events from an iPhone. My dream is to be able to put my fingers...
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Synthetic Aesthetics Proposal
Synthetic Aesthetics is an upcoming program designed to bring 6 synthetic biologists and 6 designers together in a month-long mutually beneficial collaboration. The goal is to to bring together...
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ucam ps3eye magnification test
On and off over the last 6 months I’ve been working on a 2-axis arduino controlled servo powered low-cost stage and usb microscope, inspired by Marc Dusseiller’s work . Today I hooked up a ps3eye w/ an...
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