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==History== | ==History== | ||
The registry is an effort that was founded by MIT in 2003. In the summer of 2004, the registry contained about 100 basic parts; today, this has expanded to over 700 available and 2000 defined parts <ref>http://partsregistry.org/Help:About_the_Registry</ref>. | The registry is an effort that was founded by MIT in 2003. In the summer of 2004, the registry contained about 100 basic parts; today, this has expanded to over 700 available and 2000 defined parts <ref name="iGEM Registry Help Page">[http://partsregistry.org/Help:About_the_Registry]</ref>. | ||
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What is the iGEM Registry?
The iGEM Registry is a growing bank of genetic building blocks (promoters, DNA binding sites, protein-coding sequences, etc) that are built with the intention of being pieced together to create synthetic systems within organisms. The goal is to create a large functional group of parts (called BioBricks, categorized by type, so that new combinations can be built according to engineering principles.
History
The registry is an effort that was founded by MIT in 2003. In the summer of 2004, the registry contained about 100 basic parts; today, this has expanded to over 700 available and 2000 defined parts [1].
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