From 2010.igem.org
- The notebook is organized into weeks. Click on the Saturday of each week to view that week's notebook entry
Weekly Lab Notebook
May 30 – June 5
Colin - This week, I have been more than a bit under the weather, and thus, have not been able to get as much done as I hoped. However, this week we determined the name for our project. The name is BioMORTAR, which stands for Metabolic Optimization Research Tool And Registry. After deciding between several names, this one was picked because it relates to the focus of our project: the automated design of a plasmid using BioBricks to construct it. Another break through with the project is the fact that we might have the chance, in the fall, to present our project at the Chemical and Biological Defense Conference. Since the application to the CBD S&T, requires an abstract to be submitted, I have been working, this week, on getting the abstract to be good enough to present to the Department of Defense.
Finally, we have decided this week that we will be needing a server dedicated to our program, just in case of high traffic and because we do not like having to bother Dr. Bhalerao by putting our stuff on his server.
Jeremy - I spent this week upgrading my integration of RPAIR. The database had to be manually downloaded, manually converted, and manually integrated into the main mysql database. I wrote some functions to automate these processes. While not strictly necessary, I was still feeling my way around django.
Bobak - Team tutorials in python and django
Connecting IMPtools pathway results to strain designer
Updating reaction database from KEGG, migrating to mysql
Working with Jeremy on rpair for reaction coordination
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