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Mission

The goal of this project is to make it easier to enter the field of molecular programming. It aims to equip readers with resources to:

  • Stay current with the latest developments
  • Conduct research using existing and emerging tools
  • Design and fabricate devices
  • Collaborate with the molecular programming community

Vision

This is intended to be a community-driven project that promotes open science and collaboration in a way that academia and private interests cannot. The project envisions a gradual shift away from the traditional peer-review process, toward a pipeline resembling what is used for modern software and hardware development. This approach has a few advantages:

  • No pay walls
  • Updates and feedback can be submitted by anyone
  • Contributions can be reviewed and released more quickly than with journals or textbooks
  • Encourages sharing of knowledge, and reduces information silos
  • The content review process can place less emphasis on the credentials of the contributor and reviewers, and rely more heavily on real-world testing and verification

Achieving this vision requires the community to strive for the following:

  • Standardize and rapidly release new tools for real-world testing, which will allow for faster and lower-cost reproduction of results
  • Place emphasis on being able to carry out real-world verification of content, ideally in the form of many external tutorial projects referenced from this knowledge base through any number of side projects
  • Make this field as accessible as possible to individuals and groups that may have limited resources, while also remaining commercially friendly
  • Focus research and enginering efforts most heavily on technological pathways that will require the least financial resources to use, so widespread adoption is easier