# Summary of #hplusroadmap IRC Log (May 15, 2011)

• A discussion about open-source CAD tools took place, with kanzure mentioning that Cathal was unaware of dremelfuge.git and SKDB, and had expressed a preference for OpenSCAD instead.

• Kanzure shared updates to a project called "lolcad" with a link to http://diyhpl.us/cgit/lolcad, which appears to be related to CAD software development.

• A discussion about nanopore sequencing technology occurred, with kanzure expressing frustration about a company (Nobelgen) requiring $50 million to develop an industrial-scale prototype.

• Kanzure shared information about minimal bacteriophage genomes, specifically referencing Bacteriophage MS2 (3,569 bp) and Bacteriophage Qβ (4,218 bp), with links to NCBI and Wikipedia resources.

• A question was raised about cloud computing for biological data analysis, specifically whether cloud resources could introduce errors in biological data processing.

• A participant shared a video about biological complexity, noting that gene interaction modeling requires intensive mathematical processing, mentioning that Pacific Biosciences uses Amazon EC2 for this purpose.