[Next-Generation Sequencing Book]
  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • May 14, 2002
    ``Eric Engelhard is bioengineering a honeybee. In his garage. He's part of a new generation of bioinformatics brainiacs - people improvising with computers and molecular biology - who are making it possible to move genomics out of the lab and into your spare room.

    ``To hack a genome at home, you need a roll-your-own supercomputer cluster: a collection of standard PCs running blazingly fast on the power of many inexpensive CPUs. In cheap-but-kick-ass Linux tradition, Engelhard uses a cluster of salvaged `reject boxes' to putter around with insect genomes. He wants to design a venomless honeybee. `The idea is to deconstruct an insect for whatever use you like,' he says. `You could even create a receptor on the honeybee's antennae that finds bombs.' Engelhard bounces ideas and problems off the Bioclusters email list (bioinformatics.org).''

    Full story:
    http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.06/start.html?pg=18

    Bioclusters mailing list:
    http://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters

    Reference by Chris Dagdigian and xpscreens.

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