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      <h3><font color="#A80000"><font size="6">The Littlest Mapmaker</font></font></h3>
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      <h4><i><font size="2">"Exploration into the world of <font color="#A80000">DNA Computing</font>"<br/>
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        Team Alberta: University of Alberta</font></i></h4>
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          <span class="saying">Welcome to the Team Alberta Wiki!
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<img src=" /wiki/images/2/2d/Background_icon.png " align="left" width="50" height="50"></img>Curious about the possibilities of biocomputing? Need of a crash course on travelling salesman problems? Visit our <a href="https://2013.igem.org/Team:Alberta/Background">background page</a> for more information on the real-world applications of our project.
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              I’ve been hard at work to frustrate as well as teach 10 students (from high school to undergraduate to recently graduated). Learn about my other roles and how I have successful results for solving a computational problem!
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Want to get straight to the details of what Team Alberta has been working on this summer? Read up in the <a href="https://2013.igem.org/Team:Alberta/Overview">overview</a> and <a href="https://2013.igem.org/Team:Alberta/Results">results</a> pages to see what we've achieved.
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      <img src=" /wiki/images/thumb/f/f6/Peoples_icon.png/618px-Peoples_icon.png" align="left" width="50" height="50"></img>Or maybe you'd like to get to know the team itself, those who have helped us along and those we've helped in turn? See the <a href="https://2013.igem.org/Team:Alberta/Team">team roster</a>, <a href="https://2013.igem.org/Team:Alberta/Attributions">sponsors</a> and <a href="https://2013.igem.org/Team:Alberta/Outreach">outreach</a> pages to meet everyone who's participated.
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          Welcome to the Team Alberta website! Our project pushes the limits of Synthetic Biology to create massively parallel, highly selective biological computers.
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Welcome to the Team Alberta website! Our project pushes the limits of Synthetic Biology to create massively parallel, highly selective biological computers.