http://www.masella.name/blog/2010/02/05T110243-0500.html

We need motivation for characterizing our respective chunks of hackable molecular biology components.

This is in the vein of the whiteboard list we attempted on Thursday of last week.

I propose a brainstorm race (see example)– short descriptions and headers only– Form: Google spreadsheet. In two columns, we fill in our “mathematical assets” and “biomolecular assets”. The first one to two-hundred and fifty items wins some gag prize of < CAD$5.00 and gets a special title to be determined by the winner that the loser must call for a week.

Contest ends with no winners if after three days, 250 items aren’t finished by either

Let me know if you accept and I’ll put together the spread sheet

(Anyone else we should add? John, Danielle, Brandon etc?)

Example brainstorm race (to 20) on the topic of novel icecream flavours:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tsyR72D6UQRXLG0Nv6kKoiA&single=true&gid=0&output=html

Andre wanted to write down all of our assets so that we could figure out if there were any concepts that matched nicely between items in mathematical problems and items in biomolecular assets. I’m not going to give examples of either until the race finishes of course

Oh okay fine– these are fair game by the way– two example math problems are network clustering inspired by the Hamiltonian path finder; knot maths in topology characterization. Two example biomolecular assets are ribozymes; heterodimeric proteins.