The first step that a novice hacker or programmer takes towards a technical and logical deepening is to program the famous Hello World. It is a kind of computer pattern, therefore the first step for future algorithms. And there is no computer programmer or hacker in the world who has not created a Hello World, not even to test a new compiler or a new programming language. However, if there is this pattern, or rather, this START for hackers and computer programmers, what would be the best model or start pattern for biohackers? Some method for beginners to have as a model in the field of biosciences.
Biosciences are not yet popular and there is a great barrier for ordinary people to work on issues such as genetics. It seems absurd to think that ordinary people could work with genetics, even as a Hobby, as well as work with other classical sciences. The same happened with computing in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, but with the advancement of the microtechnology industry, especially microelectronics, devices such as hardware have seen a reduction in prices and global scales. With this advance in popularization and access to materials, we all know how the advancement of computing came about, forming a breeding ground for hackers. What is questioned now is the possibility of this same fact with the biosciences. A popularization and access to materials, devices and knowledge to further strengthen the incipient hacker movement. There are KITs and cheap materials for biohackers, it is already available, although some specialists consider it an amateur, but what hacker did not start as an amateur, and in a short time mocked the highest technologies. We cannot deny that it is already a beginning, and there is a huge field to improve. However, the focus of this article is the search for a method, not the materials now. In the case, the method for biohackers is connected in a Hello World for biosciences, for a model or a START to the new biohackers. Something so simple, but that carries the maximum of concept. A method to become standard for biohackers, just like Hello World. This method is what we are looking for right now! Recalling, the concept of method is an organized set of procedures, techniques or means to do something methodically and sponsored according to a highly organized, logical and systematic research, instruction, research and presentation plan or process.
As important now as the growth of the biohacker movement is the pursuit of this standard, this method. Something like performing a PCR polymerase chain reaction, or even extracting DNA from cells, and even more sophisticated devices such as the connection or interfaces between biological platform and computation. In relation to hackers, they are self-taught, and referring to the concepts of working with biosciences there are no excuses. As we have never had as much knowledge about an open and organized platform as today, an example is the Microsoft ™ Khan Academy ™ platform. In addition to so many other examples. Simply put, today anyone can become a hacker as well as a biohacker with a basic method. A method for biohacking – An agile method, a step by step, with the basic introduction, like the famous Hello World in programming, in which it will result in a HYPE revolution for the biosciences. What would be needed for a hacker or a novice programmer is summed up in a machine that is a computer, a compiler and the concept of programming logic. The first step of every computer is initiated by the famous “Hello world.” Hello World programming can be said to be the gateway to the world of hackers and programming. It is a practice, a standard in this field. The question we ask ourselves in biohacking. It is formalized with the question: What would be the best “Hello World” for biosciences?
Until now, biosciences have been trapped in private academies and laboratories, but with the advancement of knowledge and easy access to new hand-made devices and equipment and instruments, at reduced prices, it has become easy and cheap to buy materials for the bioscience work in a popular place. way. It is a revolution like the advancement of computers in their popularization, generating hackers. At present, the new revolutionary hacker is adding the classical sciences in his actions. Thus, characters or agents called biohackers and even nanohackers appear. These will make use of the biosciences to hack the human genome, as well as to generate innovation. No one can deny a sentence: what would be the current computing without hacking a few decades ago? We can even say that we are in a quandary today. Traditional means of science production are stagnant and slow. And this new agent, the biohacker, as it begins its global operation, will bring HYPE gas and acceleration to scientific and innovative technological innovations.
About current science, an interesting case is presented in the concept of the plateau effect; more details can be seen in the book of the same name. This concept refers to a kind of paralysis in the progress of knowledge and science, a psychological slowness and other factors. The concept is well exemplified for those who are learning a new language, but at a certain stage, progress suffers a slow and stalled due to several factors. It is not very different in the progress of the biosciences, and one of the reasons for this laziness, in the face of so many variables, is the high complexity. However, just as the hacker movement has oxygenated computing with many innovations, the biohacker movement, while there are pros and cons, will undoubtedly oxygenate biosciences and other conceptual sciences. This new action matrix will bring an icebreaker, a kind of HYPE acceleration into the stagnant. There is a lot of academic concept and little practical use now. It cannot be denied, there is a new complex matrix in the making. The CRISPR and biohacker movement has even been a topic of Nature ™ journals in 2017.
In fact, it is not only the question of the best method to generate a START, for amateur biohackers, in this case, a suggestion would be in a popularization of the PCR method, let’s remember PCR as a Polymerase Chain Reaction, but this it is one of the possibilities compared to so many others. Opening up new businesses with the biohacking movement is unprecedented. The possibility of outsourcing for analytical tests, the leasing of laboratories, the sale of KITs for biohackers, new test media and a plethora of collaboration and unlimited competition. It is practically a new world that is being formed in the biosciences, a matrix in complex formation.