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Team:SUSTC-Shenzhen-B/project.html
From 2013.igem.org
Overview
Our project, 3 Miao BioCommunity, is different from all the iGem software projects in the past, for we have an ambition to create a community for the whole synthetic biology. This community is based on our original idea, the Mind Road. Mind Road is a net structural mind map that can help users think and share ideas, which can function as a platform for all synthetic biology ideas exchange.
Based on the Mind Road, our community now has a theme—— share ideas. With this theme, we intend to build our 3Miao BioCommunity. In this community, we offer LGD and TTEC as useful tool for users to process the ideas. LGD is a genetic circuit designer which can present the logical relationship of related parts. What is more, users can also post their own ideas and comment on others’ work, like Facebook and Twitter.
Background
Before we got our idea, we had reviewed all the software projects of the last three years and classified them into 6 categories (fig1). As showing in the picture, designing CAD takes up the majority of these projects. As expected, most of them share the similar ideas. After a certain time of thinking, we found that it is really reasonable that iGem software projects can hardly be quite innovative, for the lack of professional knowledge and the limitation of the usage of software during synthetic biology study. But also, if we continue to follow these ideas, our project is far away from being creative or original. Then it occurred to us, why don’t we write a program to help at least the wet lab members to get new ideas? Thus, we decided to make a difference, to create our own Mind Road—— a net structural mind map—— to assist either iGEMers or professional synthetic biology researchers to come up with and share their ideas.
Even though the mind map idea is good, it is not good enough. What’s more, comparing with computer software, synthetic biology lacks such community for knowledge and skills exchange, like GitHub. So setting Mind Road as the theme, we decided to take a bold step, to establish a simple and free online platform with high interaction ability intended for everyone interested in synthetic biology.
