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- | * [http://omnibus.uni-freiburg.de/~kouznet/life6000.pdf Life with a price of 6000 €]
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- | Now we see it could be cheaper, but it will need a great intellectual impact. So, we’re opened for '''sponsors and relationships'''.
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- | As I understand it, the idea is to create a "life
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- | automaton" consisting of 6 proteins? That is what I took
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- | out of your proposal. That seems quite ambitioned, but I
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- | can't really judge it, and even if it is quite
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- | ambitioned, that does not mean that it is bad, of
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- | course.
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- | My understanding says that you are using 6000 € for
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- | denovo synthesis of 6 genes required for making minimal
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- | life. Right?
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- | So, what if after all the simulations and tests on the
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- | computer, you order the DNA for minimal life and it
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- | turns out that it doesn't work... What will you do then?
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- | This is because biology is unpredictable and you must
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- | not assume that the DNA which you order will work in the
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- | first time itself... You must keep some backup money or
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- | plans...
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- | You have to separate specifically the general and specific
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- | objectives to long and short time; implications, obstacles
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- | and limitations.
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- | OK, fine.. So you want to go in a completely different
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- | direction by creating alternative life.. Good.. All the
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- | best for this project.
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- | Well, if you want to go to the extremes then are you
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- | limiting yourself to already established phenomena such
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- | as DNA, membranes, etc. You may want to adopt a
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- | completely new and novel ideas which might be simpler
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- | than DNA and other stuff of the normal cell.
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- | So, keep all the options open. Research the literature well and create Artificial Life...
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- | [http://2006.igem.org/wiki/index.php/Freiburg_University_2006 Home]
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