Ask HN: What would you do with 1,000 free EC2 hours on AWS? 1,000,0000?

Re:Ask HN: What would you do with 1,000 free EC2 hours on AW... by human_v2 on Sunday November 01, 2009 @04:56AM (#914901)

This is what I would do, but you'd need some prerequisite software and information:

1. Get a genome for the simplest bacteria you can find. 2. You'd need molecular simulation software, specifically DNA and cells

After you've gotten this, I would strip out pieces of the genome using the genetic algorithm (oh the irony) and see if you can slim the genome down to a bare-bones replicating cellular machine.

After that, just a little trial and error and you could be making designer organisms.

(Sorry if you wanted something realistic. My brain doesn't work like that =)

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Re:Ask HN: What would you do with 1,000 free EC2 hours on AW... by Maro on Sunday November 01, 2009 @05:22AM (#914915)

".. slim the genome down to a bare-bones replicating cellular machine .."

That sounds interesting from a computational perspective. Any good papers to read? "Designer organisms" also sounds interesting...

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