Team:Edinburgh/Collaboration

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Heidelberg: We aided in their development of an NRPS database by submitting metal binding NRPS parts which we had done minor work with.

Stanford-Brown: We collaborated with the Stanford-Brown team on Bacillus subtilis protocols and in trying to design a vector.

Newcastle: * we organized a meeting to discuss their human practices

they are creating a bacillus without a cell wall
we discussed the possible dangers of releasing this to the environment
it was possible for these cell-wall-less bacteria to exchange DNA (have sex in a way) - we discussed the implications of that
they were interested in possible analogies between synthetic biology and architecture for some competition so we gave them some ideas on that

their matematician helped us with the mathematical aspect of our modelling
we were experiencing a problem with oscillations when solving a differential-algebraic system of equations
Nicky explained that the problem was that the system of equations was stiff and told us about the difference between explicit and implicit methods
We worked together on implementing different implicit and explicit methods

Paris Bettencourt: We completed a survey for them regarding different motives for participating in iGEM.