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Well, I don't want to give too much away, but I suppose I can humor you guys :-D. I think it may be more of a web start-up than a biotech start-up to be honest.

Well, I don't want to give too much away, but I suppose I can humor you guys :-D. I think it may be more of a web start-up than a biotech start-up to be honest. It's a web start-up with a biotech foundation, if you will. We are basically taking our knowledge of genetics, (insert mass biotech-major curriculum here), and bioinformatics to people via the internet. It'll be full of cool stuff that joe the plumber will be interested, if not curious, in knowing. The only issue is that we haven't found a way to make any sort of income off of this yet without inconveniencing potential users :-(, which is one of the main reasons we have yet to put the wheels into motion on this project. I'm afraid we have only minimal business experience.

tocomment 18y ago
How about something with genes and chemicals? maybe an improved crop plant? I wish I knew how to do that.
- buckwild 18y ago
  We could do something with genes, chemicals, and crops, but there are a lot of obstacles (more than we'd like to deal with). The main issue (for me at least) is the mass amount of time and research it will take to work with that sort of science. We could do it, but in my opinion I may as well go to grad school because I'd probably be doing the same sort of research anyway (but getting a Phd at the end of it). Plus, people are only now coming around to not looking at GMO foods as alien-mutant-degenerate crops. Europe is still very much against it. My current job is to take the sorghum and maize genome and to analyze the genes (basically figuring out which genes they share, when they diverged, and how that can be applied to improving their yield).
  - tocomment 18y ago
    wow, that sounds really fascinating. computer science may have been the wrong major for me :-(
manvsmachine 18y ago
Generally speaking, if your approach is genuinely good and the problem you're solving is important (ie, nontrivial), you're not hurting much by talking about it. If it's really that easy to replicate and you have no special twist, it might not be as great as you think. Just my $.02.

tocomment 18y ago

How about something with genes and chemicals? maybe an improved crop plant? I wish I knew how to do that.

buckwild 18y ago
We could do something with genes, chemicals, and crops, but there are a lot of obstacles (more than we'd like to deal with). The main issue (for me at least) is the mass amount of time and research it will take to work with that sort of science. We could do it, but in my opinion I may as well go to grad school because I'd probably be doing the same sort of research anyway (but getting a Phd at the end of it). Plus, people are only now coming around to not looking at GMO foods as alien-mutant-degenerate crops. Europe is still very much against it. My current job is to take the sorghum and maize genome and to analyze the genes (basically figuring out which genes they share, when they diverged, and how that can be applied to improving their yield).
- tocomment 18y ago
  wow, that sounds really fascinating. computer science may have been the wrong major for me :-(

manvsmachine 18y ago

Generally speaking, if your approach is genuinely good and the problem you're solving is important (ie, nontrivial), you're not hurting much by talking about it. If it's really that easy to replicate and you have no special twist, it might not be as great as you think. Just my $.02.