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Sounds really interesting. You could try to secure additional funding for this project via Microryza (http://www.microryza.com/), which is a kickstarter for scientific research.

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Side note, I used to do work with CAD systems for simulating/building gene circuits. I can't wait until we move from open tools (Tinkercell, Biobricks, Genome Compiler, etc) to fully-modeled open platforms for organisms. Imagine having the latest build for E.Coli or C.Elegans, or a package manager to organize them, at your fingertips so that you can hack away at new designs.

It makes you wonder, with so many people independently studying and creating observed and simulated data, are there centralized places to aggregate and share these?

How is "Genome Compiler" an open tool? I hate those guys, it's not even an actual compiler. or open. If they wanted to do something useful, then yeah I would shoot for that package management concept.

Hmm - it seems those guys are not what I remembered/thought they were. I think they were somehow tied to the open bio standards project which is what I was thinking of.

Oh definitely, they pump out lots of confusing/wrong marketing all the time. I can see how they would get into that sort of list. Edit: you have a phd in pirate science?

I do not think funding is David's problem :-).

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