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From 2010.igem.org

Highlights & Achievements

On this page we would like to elaborate our judgment form a bit more. Of course you can also read our official judgement form.

What did we do? We...

• Registered our team, had a great summer, and plan to have a lot of fun at the Jamboree!
• Came up with our project: The Alkanivore.
• Build 47 new BioBricks.
• Characterized our favourite parts: [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K398326 BBa_K398326], [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K398108 BBa_K398108], [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K398406 BBa_K398406], [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K398029 BBa_K398029], [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K398331 BBa_K398331], [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K398206 BBa_K398206]
• Characterized the existing BioBrick Parts: [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_J61100 BBa_J61100], [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_J61101 BBa_J61101], [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_J61107 BBa_J61107], [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_J61117 BBa_J61117], [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_J61127 BBa_J61127]
• Passed all the biosafety tests to work in our VMT lab.
• Simulated the hydrocarbon regulation expression mechanism.
• Realized an interactive way to show our metabolic flux analysis.
• Developed a software tool that helps to engineer putative interactions for genes in a new host organism.
• Came up with a new approach to human practice - The EPAC pyramid.
• Addressed the impacts of the ongoing advances in synthetic biology and the ethical questions concerning these impacts.
• Discussed the ongoing debate about gene patenting and open source.
• Investigated the current perception of synthetic biology in general public.
• Made general public aware of our project.
• Became museum pieces in the Science Centre in Delft.
• Developed an fun and educational iGEM computer game.
• Helped other iGEM teams by creating their wiki's.
• Have the most visited wiki after igem main page.
• Made a tour to quickly go through all our highlights and achievements!