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The presented survey aimed to verify if there is a need for better BioBrick part descriptions (question 4 ), if it is belived that standardization of part descriptions could help to improove the situation (questions 5) and if the iGEM community is interested in testing a template for standardized part descriptions as presented by our team (question 6). The last two questions (question 7 and 8) were intended to collect usefull ideas how to improve our first blueprint of a standardized BioBrick part description template.

The survey can be found under: [http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/B8LZNXQ iGEM TU Munich's survey on standardization of BioBrick part descriptions]

Outline data of the survey:

• Start of the survey: 14th september 2012
• End of the survey:21st september 2012
• Number of participants: to be determinded (so far 77)
• Number of involved teams: to be determinded
• Distribution channels: The survey was sent to all contact addresses of iGEM Teams from this year, posted on iGEM 2012's Community Page and posted on our as well on the iGEM Headquarters twitter account.

Question 1 and 2:

World map showing from where the teams are coming that have answered our survey:
Participants of TU München iGEM 2012 survey auf einer größeren Karte anzeigen

Question 3:

Question 4:

Question 5:

Question 6:

Question 7:

Question8:

Rewarding the participation in our survey

As a small present and to highlite their help in improving our attempt for standardization of BioBrick part descriptions we sent these badge to everyone in the iGEM community that participated in our survey and entered a contact email in Question 2. The sentence [http://www.oktoberfest.de/en/article/About+the+Oktoberfest/About+the+Oktoberfest/O%27zapft+is+-+The+Oktoberfest+has+started!/1453/ "O'zapft is!" yearly follows the traditional ritual of tapping the first barrel of Oktoberfest-beer] and is the official start of the Oktoberfest that takes place in Munich.
Additionally to this badge we ruffled a typical bavarian present among all participants of our survey.