Resources

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Getting Started with iGEM and the Registry

• You will need to set up an account with the [http://partsregistry.org Registry of Standard Parts] if you have not already done so.
• Also check out the Registry [http://partsregistry.org/Help:Contents Help and Documentation] to begin working with [http://www.openwetware.org/wiki/BioBricks BioBricks].
• Getting started - Introductory tutorial on how to edit iGEM wiki pages. More info at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page here] and here.
• Teach the Teachers Summaries 2006 MIT, May 6 [http://flickr.com/search/?q=igem+ttt photos] ; EU, June 12

Lectures and Presentations

• Foundations of Engineering Biology (Drew Endy): [http://web.mit.edu/smcs/csbi/2006/q2/mit-csbi-foundation-08apr2006-220k.ram high res] [http://web.mit.edu/smcs/csbi/2006/q2/mit-csbi-foundation-08apr2006-80k.ram low][http://openwetware.org/images/0/0d/Nature04342.pdf journal article]
• Synthetic Society (Drew Endy): [http://web.mit.edu/smcs/csbi/2006/q2/mit-csbi-2006_society-08apr2006-220k.ram high res] [http://web.mit.edu/smcs/csbi/2006/q2/mit-csbi-2006_society-08apr2006-80k.ram low res][http://mit.edu/endy/www/scraps/talks/iGEM/Endy.iGEM.TW.pdf PDF] [http://mit.edu/endy/www/scraps/talks/iGEM/Endy.iGEM.TW.ppt PowerPoint]
• Other [http://openwetware.org/wiki/Endy:Talks Drew Endy] videos and presentations
• MIT Teach the Teachers summary (May 2006)
• Synthetic Biology 2.0 [http://webcast.berkeley.edu/events/details.php?webcastid=15766 webcasts] (May 2006)
• Natalie Kuldell's [http://openwetware.org/wiki/BE.109:Schedule BE.109] MIT course "Laboratory Fundamentals of Biological Engineering."
• MIT OpenCourseWare directory of [http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Biological-Engineering/index.htm Biological Engineering] classes.
• Synthetic Biology technical reports in MIT's DSpace

Introductory Material

• [http://partsregistry.org/Help:Contents Registry Help] - documentation from how-to's to general information dealing with all things Biobricks
• Standard Assembly
• [http://www.dnai.org www.dnai.org] - A highly recommended website teaching basic --> advanced biology specializing in visuals and animations
• [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.
• Abstraction hierarchy and PoPS

iGEM News

• iGEM News - the iGEM news portal

Technical

• General design considerations - Important things to consider when building your iGEM project!
• Research Papers in Synthetic Biology - Library of synthetic biology publications
• iGEM Papers - An introduction to genetic engineering and synthetic biology
• [http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses/archive.php?seriesid=1906978261 Synthetic Biology Lectures] - Lecture series held at UC Berkeley from speakers in the field
• The [http://openwetware.org/wiki/Synthetic_Biology:BioBricks BioBricks page] on OpenWetWare provides information related to BioBricks and the registry, including some Protocols.
• [http://openwetware.org/wiki/Main_Page OpenWetWare] - OWW is a portal for sharing information, know-how and wisdom among researchers and groups who are working in biology & biological engineering.
• [http://www.cshprotocols.org/ Cold Spring Harbor Protocols] - CSH has over 500 protocols in this online database... but it's not free.

Financial Support

• EU Financial Support from SYNBIOCOMM (available for 2007)
• Funding - information on obtaining funding for your iGEM team.