Example/Project Description

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Several weeks ago, the Example team condensed directly out of the hoary stratus clouds of inspiration and motive force that inescapably pervade the atmosphere of the iGEM labs, rising like superheated sweat from Randy's enormous brain.  These perfect beings emerged much like Athena from Zeus's brow, but with infinitely more grace and self-awareness, for they knew themselves completely: their identity was their task, their mission, their life: to create a vanillin generating device.
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The iGEM HQ Example team is a fictitious team that was formed to help illustrate how to use different aspects of the iGEM 2007 registration website and wiki, including how to officially add students to your team roster and to provide an example of a prototypical project description.  Eventually we would like to present an entire Example team set of wiki pages which other teams could use as a template for their pages.
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Inspired by the work of the MIT iGEM 2006 team on Wintergreen and Banana generating devices, They knew of the need for this new scent-producing device, and of the void that currently existed in the world and in the Registry in it's absence.  By effortlessly navigating the iGEM 2006 wiki team pages, they learned the Valencia team of 2006 had used their impressive powers of engineering, computer science, and biology to design and create, ''ex silico via vivo'', a [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_J58105 vanillin receptor device].  "Intriguing," they thought, "there exists even a molecular void for the small-molecule product of our vanillin protein, a docking site on the Valencia Team's vanillin receptor."
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Inspired by the [http://openwetware.org/wiki/IGEM:MIT/2006/Blurb MIT iGEM 2006] team's Wintergreen- and Banana-scent generating devices, our goal is to produce a vanillin-generating device (see <partinfo>BBa_I769103</partinfo>) by making biobrick-standard basic parts out of several genes that produce proteins that work together to make vanillin from ferulic acid.  We are in the process of mutating the genes, which we have obtained from several generous [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=17437627 Italian researchers], to conform to the biobrick standard and assembling them into larger composite protein-generating parts.  We will send our finished parts to the Registry of Standard Biological Parts for future distribution.  One of the most exciting ramifications of our project is  the prospect of engineering a completely novel cell-to-cell signaling system using our vanillin-generating device and the the Valencia iGEM 2006 team's synthetic [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_J58105 vanillin receptor device].  We hope to pursue this as a project for the iGEM 2008 competition.
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But they needed more knowledge.  NCBI's PubMed provided it: a [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=17437627 fulltext article] by several scientists who had already subcloned several genes that worked together to produce vanillin from ferulic acid.  Currently the team of ethereal beings has received the genes from the researchers and is in the process of biobricking both.  See one of the designs: <partinfo>BBa_I769103</partinfo>.
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Revision as of 19:46, 31 July 2007

The iGEM HQ Example team is a fictitious team that was formed to help illustrate how to use different aspects of the iGEM 2007 registration website and wiki, including how to officially add students to your team roster and to provide an example of a prototypical project description. Eventually we would like to present an entire Example team set of wiki pages which other teams could use as a template for their pages.

Inspired by the [http://openwetware.org/wiki/IGEM:MIT/2006/Blurb MIT iGEM 2006] team's Wintergreen- and Banana-scent generating devices, our goal is to produce a vanillin-generating device (see ) by making biobrick-standard basic parts out of several genes that produce proteins that work together to make vanillin from ferulic acid. We are in the process of mutating the genes, which we have obtained from several generous [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=17437627 Italian researchers], to conform to the biobrick standard and assembling them into larger composite protein-generating parts. We will send our finished parts to the Registry of Standard Biological Parts for future distribution. One of the most exciting ramifications of our project is the prospect of engineering a completely novel cell-to-cell signaling system using our vanillin-generating device and the the Valencia iGEM 2006 team's synthetic [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_J58105 vanillin receptor device]. We hope to pursue this as a project for the iGEM 2008 competition.

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