Team:TU-Delft/SynBioData

Wiki Interviews

Given that synthetic biology involves creating novel living organisms,it is not surprising that security, safety and ethical concerns have been raised. Many iGem teams have tried to investigate the perception of people related to that kind of concerns through interviews.

One part of our human practices focuses on the interviews that took place and the topics that were discussed in the frame of iGem competitions between 2008 to 2012.Our main aims are:

Aim

1. To create a toolkit that retrieves interviews based the keywords:
   1. ethics
   2. regulation
   3. safety
   4. synthetic
   5. other
2. To explore which topics where mostly discussed during the interviews as well as the background of the people participated in the interviews.In particular, we set up a number of a questions that we were able to answer.
   1. How many interviews talk about safety?
   2. How many interviews talk about regulation?
   3. How many interviews talk about ethics?
   4. What kind of people were interviewed?
   5. How many interviews were carried out per year?
3. To give further suggestions for future teams

In order to succeed this, we used a simple web crawler written in C programming language. In that way, we managed to retrieve the