Background
The UT-Tokyo-Software team is planning software projects aimed to assist iGEM teams. For many teams, the majority of members are new-comers. Therefore, many of these teams require a substantial amount of time and effort at the beginning of the year to get to know iGEM, after which they will finally be able to start thinking about what they want to do. We believe that if this learning period can be made more efficient, the productivity of teams can be greatly enhanced. Although tutorials and search systems are provided at the iGEM website, we have decided to create our own set of programs that fill in some of the important gaps that we feel are left open at the iGEM sites. Our project consist of two parts: "Tutorial" and "Search".
1. Would any of your project ideas raise safety issues in terms of
researcher safety, public safety, or environmental safety?
No. None of our software projects raise research, public, or
environmental safety issues.
2. Do any of the new BioBrick parts (or devices) that you made this
year raise safety issues?
No. We do not plan to develop new parts in our projects.
3. Is there a local biosafety group, committee, or review board at our
institution?
We do not plan to conduct any wet experiments that involve gene manipulation.
Our instructors and advisors think our projects does not raise any
safety problems.
4. Do you have any other ideas to deal with safety issues that could
be useful for future iGEM competitions?
It might be helpful if there are more comprehensive learning materials
that promote awareness of biosafety issues.
It would be more desirable if the materials are interactive, as users
can actively learn with fun.
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