Criteria

Bronze Medal

• Register the team, have a great summer, and have fun attending the Jamboree.
• Create and share a description of the team's project via the iGEM wiki.
• Present a Poster and Talk at the iGEM Jamboree.
• Develop and make available via the The Registry of Software Tools an open source software tool that supports synthetic biology based on BioBrick standard biological parts (remember, the iGEM judges will be looking for substantial team-based software projects).

Silver Medal

• Provide a detailed, draft specification for the next version of your software tool
• Provide a second, distinct (yet complementary) software tools project.
• In addition the team must:

• Provide a demonstration of their software either as a textual or video tutorial made available on their wiki. This tutorial should explain all the features of the tool as well as provide sample input and output as appropriate.

Gold Medal

• 1. Have another team utilize the software developed by your team. You must clearly show how your software was used and the results that were obtained.
• 2a. Outline and detail how your software effects Human Practices in Synthetic Biology. Such topics include: safety, security, ethics, or ownership, sharing, and innovation.
• 3a. Develop and document a new technical standard that supports one of the following:
• design of BioBrick Parts or Devices
• construction of BioBrick Parts or Devices
• characterization of BioBrick Parts or Devices
• the analysis, modeling, and simulation of BioBrick Parts or Devices
• the sharing of BioBrick Parts or Devices, either via physical DNA or as information via the internet.

Best Interaction with the Parts Registry

• (Provide a new software interface to both retrieve information from and store information to the Parts registry. You should clearly demonstrate how this approach is superior to using the Parts web site directly.)
• Develop a methodology to quantify BioBrick performance which is supported by a software tool. Characterization, user reviews, and formally tracking parts used successfully in designs are all examples. Users should be able to both query this information as well as add it themselves. This should complement what is in the registry.
• Propose an alternate interaction with the registry. Clearly document this on your wiki in a page explicitly dedicated to this aspect of your tool. You should clearly show how to use this tool in a design flow used by experimental iGEM teams.