Resources

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Introductory Material

• [http://www.nature.com/nature/comics/syntheticbiologycomic/index.html Comic] introducing basic ideas of Synthetic Biology, Parts and Devices.
• Drew Endy's article [http://openwetware.org/images/0/0d/Nature04342.pdf Foundations for engineering biology] (published in Nature), explaining motivation and ideas behind synthetic biology.
• [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_biology Wikipedia article] about synthetic biology, with more links
• [http://web.mit.edu/endy/www/igem/iGEM.supplement.pdf iGEM 2005 Supplement] This document summarizes what happened in 2003 and 2004, gives a background on abstraction and PoPS.

Technical

• The [http://openwetware.org/wiki/Synthetic_Biology:BioBricks BioBricks page] on OpenWetWare provides information related to BioBricks and the registry, including some Protocols.

Organisations

• [http://openwetware.org/wiki/Main_Page OpenWetWare], a portal for "sharing information, know-how and wisdom among researchers and groups who are working in biology & biological engineering". plethora of Information.

Publications

• iGEM Papers - An introduction to genetic engineering and synthetic biology
• Research Papers in Synthetic Biology - Library of synthetic biology publications

Financial Support

• EU Financial Support from SYNBIOCOMM (available for 2007)

Misc

• iGEM News - the iGEM news portal
• [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page Wikipedia: How to edit a wiki] - A quick reference on how to edit a wiki