CH391L/S13/Assignments

For Monday, January 28th, 2013

• 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 either Introduction to Synthetic Biology or Ethics of synthetic biology.
• Add at least one event to the "Timeline of Synthetic Biology" in the Introduction to Synthetic Biology with a link or citation.
• Read articles for discussion:
  • Synthetic biology: new engineering rules for an emerging discipline
  • The promise and perils of synthetic biology

New Topics:

• BioBricks and the iGEM registry (Tyler)
• Oligonucleotide, gene synthesis, cloning techniques (Gabe)
• Ethics/DIY Biology Movement (????)

For Monday, February 4th, 2013

Topic Updates / Highlighted Papers

• BioBricks and the iGEM registry
• Oligonucleotide, gene synthesis, cloning techniques
• Ethics/DIY Biology Movement

New Topics

• Refactoring (Neil)
• Minimal / "clean" genomes (Evan)
• CAD for Synthetic Biology (Kevin)

For Monday, February 11th, 2013

New Topics

• Ancestral sequence reconstruction (Aurko)
• Directed protein evolution (Max)
• In vitro nucleic acid selection (Alvaro)

For Monday, February 18th, 2013

New Topics

• Biocontainment (Thomas)
• Bioprospecting / Metagenomics (Andre)
• New Marker Genes (Ben)