Wired’s Geekipedia is marketed as “People, places, ideas and trends you need to know now“. As such you can find biology and biotech related terms in it (part of the current hip and tech-savvy culture) like ‘stem cells‘, ‘RNAi‘ or ‘brain implants‘, explained. But you won’t find the terms ‘Natureplex’, ‘executable cell biology’, ‘Open Notebook Science’, ‘SciFoo Camp’, ‘23andMe’ or ‘Pharyngula’ in it. The idea of building a Geekipedia (call it Biogeekipedia) specialized to the life sciences (biology, biotech, biomedical sciences, bioengineering, biobloggers…) seems pretty straightforward. (Or you can expand it to all natural sciences, but that is not my concern here.) So here I’d like to ask my readers to suggest entries for this Biogeekipedia, exotic, rare, but cool niche terms, buzzwords, good phrases, sentences, ideas and people within the biotech realm (web included) we all need to know. Use your imagination instead of your tag cloud. I start with my own embyronic list right now on the top of my head without links and explanations (Intensive work hours are inversely correlated to the number of quality blog posts). Needless to say it is more of a joke than a serious adventure. (List updated with the suggestions of Mr. Gunn, Jon Rowley and Matthew Oki O’ Connor.)
23andMe
Adie, Euan
aging
ATP/ADP
biobase
biogerontology
biomaterials
biotech DIY (DIY biology, bioDIY, home biology , garage biology, Homebrew Molecular Biology Club)
cancer immunoediting
cell fusion
Chemical Blogspace
CIRM
Connotea
convergent medical technologies
Craig Venter
deCODE
Easton, Alf
embryome
executable cell biology
FACS
Geekipedia
Genentech
genetic reprogramming
Google First Ladies
Google Palimpsest Project
