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A Visit to BGI

  July 23, 2012, two iGEM competition teams of our university SUSTC visited BGI for communication and learning from each other .

  Before this, our iGEM team members have held several journal clubs during the past semester to learn basic knowledge of synthetic biology, just before the summer vocation we decided our project, BioSearch iPhone App development for ShenZhen-A team, Transcription Terminator Efficiency Calculator for ShenZhen-B team. After 10 days summer training and work, both two teams have basic achievement on their project. The urgent need is to communicate with other matured teams to get valuable advices and experimental experiences. So we visited BGI.

  During trip to BGI, iGEM team members first visited the BGI Exhibition Hall to know about the development of BGI and their research result, (photos).

  At BGI military school, we saw the training classroom of beginners, library and practicing labs, then we went to the laboratory of BGI researchers, our iGEM team instructor Jiankui He introduced the principles of the sophisticated gene sequencing instruments there and watched the researchers’ demonstration. After the visit, we met team members of BGI(SHENZHEN team),introduced work progress then discussed and gave recommendations to each other on several issues we came across.

  If achieved, BioSearch will be even better than a web explorer.

  Since the discussion zone on Partsregistry rarely has been visited. In order to promote academic communication between iGEM participants and synthetic biologists, we believe a discussion zone on mobile platform will be more popular and more convenient. That involves the management of discussion record on web server that might be achieved in the future.

  Since the discussion zone on Partsregistry rarely has been visited. In order to promote academic communication between iGEM participants and synthetic biologists, we believe a discussion zone on mobile platform will be more popular and more convenient. That involves the management of discussion record on web server that might be achieved in the future.

  To better satisfy the need of increasing iPad user.

  We expect to import data from BioSearch to BioDesign to do biochemical reaction simulation. Then BioSearch will be even stronger and comprehensive.

  We hope users could vote for their favorite biobrick as an encouragement to its author.