Wetware (biology)

The term wetware is used to describe the protocols and molecular devices used in molecular biology and synthetic biology.

Where biological components and systems are treated in a similar manner to software, and similar development models and methodologies are applied, the term 'wetware' can be used to imply an approach to their problems as 'bugs' and their beneficial aspects as 'features'. In this manner, genetic code can be subjected to Version Control Systems such as Git, for the development of improvements and new gene edits, therapeutic components and therapies.

Examples

The National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Wiki project Open Wetware (OWW) provides a resource for reagent, project and laboratory notebook sharing.[1]

A somewhat related NSF consortium Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (SynBERC) constructs and distributes wetware.[2]

gollark: Yes, I am sure everyone will spontaneously decide they support the same specific political/economic/social system and self-organize into that?
gollark: If your system cannot be deployed without immediately switching everything over to it, then honestly it's pretty bad and I don't want it.
gollark: It will probably have to interact with markets, but be like Haskell™ and just limit the scope of such IO.
gollark: One country can individually rearrange itself to be more socialist in whatever way you think is good.
gollark: That's pretty stupid.

References
  1. "Open Wetware (OWW)".
  2. "NSF SynBERC".


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