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| - | iGEM competition is definetely biological comptetition. However, such highly specialised technical competitions are the greatest possible way to influence public perception about scientific/ethical issues/problems/discoveries/needs. Like in every community there needs to be very strong core and if you have one you can build strong community around this core and this community depending on its strength will be able to influence and help unrelated communities. <br /><br /> | + | iGEM competition is definetely scientific biological comptetition. However, such highly specialised technical competitions are the greatest possible way to influence public perception about scientific/ethical issues/problems/discoveries/needs. Like in every community there needs to be very strong core and if you have one you can build strong community around this core and this community depending on its strength will be able to influence and help unrelated communities. <br /><br /> |
iGEM development and huge increase in number of teams in last years shows that iGEM already has strong core and I am sure that in next few years iGEM competition from highly specialized biological competition will turn out into each year cultural event like <a href="www.ted.com">TED</a>. Fact that iGEM will turn from event for restricted group of people into widely acceptable and useful event for me is absolutely obvious. And that is the place where we - informaticians come out : ) <br /><br /> | iGEM development and huge increase in number of teams in last years shows that iGEM already has strong core and I am sure that in next few years iGEM competition from highly specialized biological competition will turn out into each year cultural event like <a href="www.ted.com">TED</a>. Fact that iGEM will turn from event for restricted group of people into widely acceptable and useful event for me is absolutely obvious. And that is the place where we - informaticians come out : ) <br /><br /> | ||
Conventionaly informatician is meant to be geeky programming guy. That's not true. Cnventionaly, informatician is meant to love black screen with lines of white code there and hate all those GUI guys. That's true, but not always. We have another type of informaticians who are able to "trade data". They sell scientific and mostly boring for non-specialized person data and get public's understanding of things happening from inside of science as a payment. Look at the NASA web-site! Organisation which applies probably the most cuting edge technologies and scientific discoveries has the web-site which I would easily take as a web-site of spaceships related MMORPG game. What they do? They trade their data. | Conventionaly informatician is meant to be geeky programming guy. That's not true. Cnventionaly, informatician is meant to love black screen with lines of white code there and hate all those GUI guys. That's true, but not always. We have another type of informaticians who are able to "trade data". They sell scientific and mostly boring for non-specialized person data and get public's understanding of things happening from inside of science as a payment. Look at the NASA web-site! Organisation which applies probably the most cuting edge technologies and scientific discoveries has the web-site which I would easily take as a web-site of spaceships related MMORPG game. What they do? They trade their data. | ||
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New Informatics - Introduction
Personal note
Working in a wet lab is actually absolutely the same as programming in Java. You make an assumption, then you build small model, then you implement it and then you see a result. Depending on the results which might be right or not really the ones you expected, you adjust your model and/or implementation and get another set of results. But there is really huge difference between biology wet lab and computer programming. In computer programming you get your results usually immediately but in a wet lab... you have to wait starting from 1 hour and ending by +infinity : )) Wet lab is definetely not for the real informatician guys.
JD
Working in a wet lab is actually absolutely the same as programming in Java. You make an assumption, then you build small model, then you implement it and then you see a result. Depending on the results which might be right or not really the ones you expected, you adjust your model and/or implementation and get another set of results. But there is really huge difference between biology wet lab and computer programming. In computer programming you get your results usually immediately but in a wet lab... you have to wait starting from 1 hour and ending by +infinity : )) Wet lab is definetely not for the real informatician guys.
JD
This section of our team WIKI will present thoughts, ideas and results of our team work conecerning informatics side of the project. Usually informaticians are mainly meant to be "modelling guys" or guys "who should know how to do wiki". In our team things happened bit other way and all the moddelling job was captured by engineers and due to lack of knowledge and mostly patients (see personal note above) our informaticians absolutely declined to work in a lab. There were also set of other reasons why this happens and this section of Edinburgh iGEM Team 2009 WIKI will be about those reasons.
iGEM competition is definetely scientific biological comptetition. However, such highly specialised technical competitions are the greatest possible way to influence public perception about scientific/ethical issues/problems/discoveries/needs. Like in every community there needs to be very strong core and if you have one you can build strong community around this core and this community depending on its strength will be able to influence and help unrelated communities.
iGEM development and huge increase in number of teams in last years shows that iGEM already has strong core and I am sure that in next few years iGEM competition from highly specialized biological competition will turn out into each year cultural event like TED. Fact that iGEM will turn from event for restricted group of people into widely acceptable and useful event for me is absolutely obvious. And that is the place where we - informaticians come out : )
Conventionaly informatician is meant to be geeky programming guy. That's not true. Cnventionaly, informatician is meant to love black screen with lines of white code there and hate all those GUI guys. That's true, but not always. We have another type of informaticians who are able to "trade data". They sell scientific and mostly boring for non-specialized person data and get public's understanding of things happening from inside of science as a payment. Look at the NASA web-site! Organisation which applies probably the most cuting edge technologies and scientific discoveries has the web-site which I would easily take as a web-site of spaceships related MMORPG game. What they do? They trade their data.
iGEM competition and its underlying idea is even more fascinating, at least for me. You can't go to the moon by yourself in the nearest future but you can do your own synthethic biology discoveries already in the high school. iGEM can directly impact public perception about science. But this thing to happen team websites from scientific WIKI's should start moving towards interactive pieces of art which take its visitors to the amazing and colourful world of synthethic biology.
iGEM development and huge increase in number of teams in last years shows that iGEM already has strong core and I am sure that in next few years iGEM competition from highly specialized biological competition will turn out into each year cultural event like TED. Fact that iGEM will turn from event for restricted group of people into widely acceptable and useful event for me is absolutely obvious. And that is the place where we - informaticians come out : )
Conventionaly informatician is meant to be geeky programming guy. That's not true. Cnventionaly, informatician is meant to love black screen with lines of white code there and hate all those GUI guys. That's true, but not always. We have another type of informaticians who are able to "trade data". They sell scientific and mostly boring for non-specialized person data and get public's understanding of things happening from inside of science as a payment. Look at the NASA web-site! Organisation which applies probably the most cuting edge technologies and scientific discoveries has the web-site which I would easily take as a web-site of spaceships related MMORPG game. What they do? They trade their data.
iGEM competition and its underlying idea is even more fascinating, at least for me. You can't go to the moon by yourself in the nearest future but you can do your own synthethic biology discoveries already in the high school. iGEM can directly impact public perception about science. But this thing to happen team websites from scientific WIKI's should start moving towards interactive pieces of art which take its visitors to the amazing and colourful world of synthethic biology.
Edinburgh University iGEM Team 2009
