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Team:Macquarie Australia/collaborations
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Collaborations
Our work
Our team has a strong belief that the best science is performed by working in groups. In this manner, collaboration between groups is highly attractive to us. However, given some circumstances this is difficult for us to perform. We identified that the lateness of wiki updates was a significant problem and did not make collaborating easier. While the wikis are very open, we felt more could be done to improve the sharing between teams.
The Macquarie team wanted to be involved in collaborations, however- our geographical location makes this difficult. We still wanted to work with and contribute to the community. To meet this goal we wanted to survey the community. We wanted to see if other groups want to work together and what their view on the iGEM experience was.
Our survey consisted of only nine questions and was mainly interested in the individual's perspective of collaboration.
We would like the thank the following teams for being involved in our survey, if you would like to participate then click here. Our initial results will be presented at the Asian Regional Jamboree.
Wiki Updating
In our experience we had found significant trouble in learning what other teams were doing. We believed this is due to teams spending a considerable amount of time in the lab, as well as the potential that they are working on the site offline and then pasting all the data as the freeze approaches.
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The number of surveys filled out by teams from the Asia region was lower than expected considering it is the largest region. The surveys also contained contradictory information. Some members from the same team stated that the wiki was updated each week, whilst another stated it was in the week before the wikifreeze. The distribution show that the Asian region has significant delays in the posting of content compared to other regions, in particular East America and Europe. If iGEM were to place a greater emphasis on collaborations than the delay in wiki updates may hamper the Asian region.
Wiki and Open Source
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Our contributions
The Macquarie Team helped several other teams by completing their surveys. The teams we aided are listed below,
- TU München
- Trieste 2012
- University of British Columbia
