Resources

From 2006.igem.org

Introductory Material

• Comic introducing basic ideas of Synthetic Biology, Parts and Devices.
• Drew Endy's article Foundations for engineering biology (published in Nature), explaining motivation and ideas behind synthetic biology.
• Wikipedia article about synthetic biology, with more links
• iGEM 2005 Supplement This document summarizes what happened in 2003 and 2004, gives a background on abstraction and PoPS.

Technical

• The BioBricks page on OpenWetWare provides information related to BioBricks and the registry, including some Protocols.

Organisations

• OpenWetWare, a portal for "sharing information, know-how and wisdom among researchers and groups who are working in biology & biological engineering". plethora of Information.
• Synthetic Biology research community page on OpenWetWare [1]

Papers

• General Review Papers
• Research Papers in Synthetic Biology +
• Mathematical Modeling in Synthetic Biology

Financial Support

• EU Financial Support from SYNBIOCOMM (available for 2007)

DNA Synthesis

• Blue Heron Point of Contact