What would you do with 1,000 free EC2 hours on AWS? 1,000,0000?
human_v2: This is what I would do, but you'd need some prerequisite software and information:1. Get a genome for the simplest bacteria you can find.
2. You'd need molecular simulation software, specifically DNA and cellsAfter you've gotten this, I would strip out pieces of the genome using the genetic algorithm (oh the irony) and see if you can slim the genome down to a bare-bones replicating cellular machine.After that, just a little trial and error and you could be making designer organisms.(Sorry if you wanted something realistic. My brain doesn't work like that =)