Request* for Biosecurity project assistance

I am looking for people to help/give feedback on a biosecurity project.

Salary: none

Location: Remote (Global)

Application: email me at [email protected] saying you'd like to help, preferably with some details on what you'd expect to do, as well as what you're good at. There is no deadline/rolling basis.

Suggested skills and/or requirements: 

There are no requirements, but there are some 'Nice-to-haves':

1. Enjoying working with a team,
2. Code (namely, the ability to automate collecting information from the web).

Other notes about the project:

The goal of the project (which is not set in stone) is to make it easier for people to find bacteria that create antibiotics, ^[1] and make it easier to discover new antibiotics.  The end result is something along the lines of:

A dataset of antibiotic-producing bacteria (or promising research on the topic, or potential APBs), including links about each bacteria, such that labs can easily find new antibiotics and/or easily develop systems to make antibiotics, and more.

In the project, the main next step is to develop a system that scans the web for antibiotic-producing bacteria (APB), ^[2] and collects information (such as the source of the information) on said bacteria. (the 'scanner' doesn't need to be right 100% of the time, just right enough to make the search for APB much easier.)  It has come to my attention that antibiotics take too much time to go from discovery to clinical use, so the plan is under revision.

The project plan (which is not set in stone) is available here.

(Note: this is unofficial, and not what one would consider a 'job'.)

Update: it turns out, someone already did this! (Data Management and Communications – Gryphon Scientific)

1. ^{^}

   Bacteria sometimes develop antibiotics as a defense mechanism.

2. ^{^}

   This is the official term for it, according to GPT-4, and based on the papers I've read so far, this is the term that is used.