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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 <a href="/Team:Alberta/Team">10 students</a> (from high school to undergraduate to recently graduated). Learn about my other roles and how I have successful <a href="/Team:Alberta/Results">results</a> 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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Latest revision as of 03:38, 29 October 2013



Curious about the possibilities of biocomputing? Need of a crash course on travelling salesman problems? Visit our background page for more information on the real-world applications of our project.

Want to get straight to the details of what Team Alberta has been working on this summer? Read up in the overview and results pages to see what we've achieved.

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 team roster, sponsors and outreach pages to meet everyone who's participated.

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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