Resources

From 2006.igem.org

Contents 1 Introductory Material 2 iGEM News 3 Technical 4 Publications and Talks 5 Financial Support 6 Misc

Introductory Material

• FAQ for new iGEM teams

• [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.

iGEM News

Articles about iGEM from newspapers, journals, etc.

• iGEM News - the iGEM news portal

Technical

• 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.

Publications and Talks

• 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

Financial Support

• EU Financial Support from SYNBIOCOMM (available for 2007)

Misc

• [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