Stanford/BIOE44:Module 3:Day3
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Summary
Identify an environmental pollutant and design an engineered DNA part(s) that might be used to detect your chosen pollutant. Note that you will almost certainly base your DNA parts on natural sequences.
Designer DNA Parts
| Part Name | Function | Group | STATUS |
| Atrazine sensor | To sense cyanuric acid, a product of atrazine digestion | Claire, Frank and Sanjay | UPLOADED & CONFIRMED, ORDERED |
| Nitrate Sensor | To sense nitrate at concentrations up to 100 ppm | Scott and Travis | UPLOADED & CONFIRMED, ORDERED |
| TCE Sensor | To sense toluene and trichloroethylene (TCE), two major water pollutants. | Alex and Sunny | UPLOADED & CONFIRMED, ORDERED |
| Nitrate Sensor II | To detect nitrate through an aerobically functional FNR mutant gene | Aaditya and Daniel | UPLOADED & CONFIRMED, ORDERED |
| Novel Mercury sensor | To sense inorganic mercury Hg(II) dissolved in water | Chris and Karina | UPLOADED & CONFIRMED, ORDERED |
Tools You Found Useful
| Tool | Function | URL |
| Biology Workbench | Alignment | click here |
| Nucleotide BLAST | Alignment | link |
| BCM Search Launcher: Gene Feature Searches | Prokaryotic Promoter Predictions | http://searchlauncher.bcm.tmc.edu/seq-search/gene-search.html |
| Sequence Massager | Manipulating DNA sequences | |
| DNA Translator | Translate DNA to amino acid sequence |
