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iGEM Explainer Vodcasts

Drew Endy: Defining Synthetic Biology
"Make it easier to build things. Define the things you are building with by using standards. Hide biological complexity with abstraction." Drew explains Synthetic Biology from the ground up; from the foundations of genetic engineering laid in the 1970's. more...
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Drew Endy: Believe in Synthetic Biology
So what's the point of all this? Why should you care about automated construction of DNA and standards and abstraction? Why should you consider changing how you engineer biological systems from doing ad-hoc research to something that's a more scalable engineering framework? more...
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Drew Endy: What is a Standard Biological Part
"What does it mean to have a Standard Biological Part - for example, a BioBrick-standard biological part? Well, why would something like that be important? A good question. It's interesting that a lot of the iGEM teams show up and say they are using BioBricks, right, BioBricks-this, BioBricks-that, Standard biological parts this-that-and-the-other-thing; It's pretty weird, because it turns out not everyone is using BioBricks."3 more...
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Tutorial 4.1 - Adding and documenting a basic part
In this screencast Reshma Shetty adds a basic part to the registry. You can follow along at [http://partsregistry.org/Help:Team_experience_tutorial#Make_a_part section 4.1 of the team experience tutorial]. "A basic part is a linear DNA sequence encoding a fundamental function like a promoter, terminator, ribosome binding site, or in our case, a protein coding region. Click on the 'Add a Basic Part Now...' link" more...
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Tutorial 4.2 - Entering Part Sequence and Feature Information
In this screencast Reshma Shetty finishes adding a basic part to the registry by adding its sequence and annotating several features, including the start codon, the stop codon, and the entire protein-coding sequence. You can follow along at [http://partsregistry.org/Help:Team_experience_tutorial#Entering_Part_Sequence_and_Feature_Information section 4.2 of the team experience tutorial]. more...
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