Bioengineers Build Open Source Language for Programming Cells | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
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According to Endy, this notion began with a group of students from Abraham Lincoln High School in San Francisco a half decade ago, and he’s now calling for a commercial company to recreate Sun Microsystems’ Java vision in the biological world. It’s worth noting, however, that this vision never really came to fruition — and that Sun Microsystems is no more.
Nonetheless, this is what Endy is shooting for — right down to Sun’s embrace of open source software. The BIOFAB language will be freely available to anyone, and it will be a collaborative project.
La biologie de synthèse est effectivement une manière de reprendre ce qui a échoué en informatique et de l’appliquer au vivant, en espérant un miracle, justement parce qu’il s’agit de vivant.