CH391L/S12/Assignments

For Monday, January 30, 2012

• Register to use the OpenWetWare Wiki.
• Learn how to edit pages.
• Play around in the WIki sandbox.
• Leave at least one comment on the Talk page or make at least one addition to Introduction to Synthetic Biology
• Read the review article:
  1. Andrianantoandro E, Basu S, Karig DK, and Weiss R. Synthetic biology: new engineering rules for an emerging discipline. Mol Syst Biol. 2006;2:2006.0028. DOI:10.1038/msb4100073 |

New Topics: Finding Biological Parts

• iGEM registry - Midhat Patel
• bioprospecting / metagenomics - David Truong
• directed evolution / in vitro selection - Adam Meyer
• ancestral protein construction - Jared Ellefson

For Monday, February 6, 2012

New Topics: Assembling Biological Parts

• Restriction enzyme cloning - UG
• BioBricks/BglBricks assembly - UG
• Gene/genome synthesis -
• PCR techniques -
• Gibson assembly -