Open-source, DIY genomics

"You can't rely on the model of running everything through the historic, traditional research channels.” “..the locus of control is different and distributed. There are no principal investigators and subjects. Instead, there are organizers and participants, and both of those are collaborators.”
http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v16/n9/full/nm0910-953.html

DIYBio: http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v15/n3/full/nm0309-230.html

http://ung.igem.org/Main_Page

http://diygenomics.org/