Cory J. Geesaman » Open Source

NovaDB

CoryG — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 08:45:06 +0000

I’m releasing the Nova Database project that is still underway under the Apache License Version 2.0. The code is c and c++ wrapped in a KDevelop project. The project is taking a bit longer than initially planned, and I may be taking on a position that would require significantly less time be put into this so it seems worthwhile to make open source and see if anything comes of it with slower development otherwise.

The project home can be found on http://www.novadb.org/

-or alternative on Google Code at http://code.google.com/p/novadb/

-or SourceForge at http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/novadb/

Neuro Engineering

CoryG — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:16:27 +0000

Wired has a two part story on neuro engineering using light and magnetic fields (in that order for the two parts) at:

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2009/03/neuroengineering1 and http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2009/03/neuroengineering2

Part two also contains a link to an open source TMS machine which looks like it could be a lot of fun (http://transcenmentalism.org/OpenStim/tiki-index.php).

Open Source Pharmaceuticals

CoryG — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:34:31 +0000

As reported on http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2009/03/02/harnessing-the-crowd-to-make-better-drugs-mercks-stephen-friend-nails-down-5m-to-propel-biology-into-open-source-era/ a new non-profit is starting with the aim of creating an open source pharmaceutical research platform. Their website is located at http://www.sagebase.org/ and is called Sage. With recent articles about OpenWetWare.org Sage and Ginkgo Bioworks this seems like a new trend that will be mutually benifical to everyone.

The new hacking

CoryG — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:39:08 +0000

from http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/02/etech-preview-creating-biologi.html:

“If you’ve gotten tired of hacking firewalls or cloud computing, maybe it’s time to try your hand with DNA. That’s what Reshma Shetty is doing with her Doctorate in Biological Engineering from MIT. Apart from her crowning achievement of getting bacteria to smell like mint and bananas, she’s also active in the developing field of synthetic biology and has recently helped found a company called Gingko BioWorks which is developing enabling technologies to allow for rapid prototyping of biological systems.”

OpenWetWare.org is a cool site you should check out if you have any interest in biological engineering.