I like the idea, incentivising science seems like a worthwhile goal. Especially on a platform like Steem where everything is open access to anyone who wants to view it.
This would be a great way to get all of the various synthetic biology pathways out there and available for people to incorporate into their own biological circuits, and also provide some reward to the researchers who put the effort into making said circuits.
Synthetic biology is painstaking work, that much I know. I have seen quite a few talks from people in this field recently ( over the past year or so ) as invited speakers where I work, and its clear how difficult the field is. They are truly swimming in uncharted waters.
According to the PEvO whitepaper, "All European scientific articles [are] to be freely accessible by 2020". What is even more important is Open Data. The Steem blockchain could become the world's largest science laboratory. Data is accumulated, entered into the blockchain. Experiments could be curated as in Steemit posts. Upvotes by more proven scientists rewards the author of the work with Steem. Furthermore, Steem could be an incentive for scientists to replicate previous work to provide validity to an experiment.
Integrating all scientific work is a synergy that would have unimagined results because science is challenging to digest, learn what is current and see down the line to future developments.
Furthermore, if scientific data is incentivized to be machine readable via RDF, AI could generate hypotheses and test them autonomously. The possibilities are endless.
I would be glad to contribute my work to such a system, were it set up for me to do so.