Team:Edinburgh/Collaboration

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 cooperative 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

SDU-Denmark:

• 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.