IGEM:IMPERIAL/2007/Ideas/Feasibility
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Feasibility Criteria
Level 1
- Application driven
- Sources of knowledge / research
- reuse old knowledge
- novel, no overlap with other iGEMs
- project must be approves (Ethics, Safety)
- scope - needs to be functional in 9 weeks
Level 2
- Application has to be low cost
- has to be portable
- safe, no contamination
- inspire confidence in synthetic biology
- must have a contingency
- use parts in registry
- no heavy metals
- no human testing
- no quantum shift (big change)
- keep to the status quo
- base on a commercialised product
- budget
- equipment
Level 3
- based on reliable, basic parts
- max 3 components
- well documented
- easily modelled
- limited to college grounds
- restricted booking
- easy learning curve
Level 4
- well characterised biobricks and chassis
- use PoPS
Tree Structure
Criterion 1: Project Must Be Application driven
- Application has to be low cost
- has to be portable
- safe, no contamination
- inspire confidence in synthetic biology
- must have a contingency
Criterion 2: Project Must Generate Research
- HRP
- information processing
- sensors
- cleanup
- information processing
- must generate data and analysis
- must generate documentation
- HRP
Criterion 3: Project Must Reuse Available Sources of Knowledge
- Literature must be available
- use parts in registry or past iGEM projects
- based on reliable, basic parts
- well characterised biobricks and chassis
- avoid composite systems
- standards adherence
- use PoPS
- based on reliable, basic parts
- Analogous system ourside synthetic biology
Criterion 4: Project Must Be Novel (no overlap with past iGEMS)
- must not copy past iGEMs or be similar to them
- must not have been done outside iGEM either (but can do something that has been attempted but failed)
Criterion 5: Project must be approved, Safety & Ethics
- Imperial College regulations must be satisfied
- no heavy metals
- Ethical requirements must be satisfied
- no human testing
- legal requirements must be satisfied
- Safety
- Imperial College regulations must be satisfied
Criterion 6: Project Has Constraints on its Scope
- needs to be functional in 9 weeks
- no quantum shift (big change)
- max 3 components
- well documented
- easily modelled
- keep to the status quo
- base on a commercialised product
- budget
- equipment
- limited to college grounds
- restricted booking
- easy learning curve
focus on engineering not science
make something work well - performance.
no exotic protocol requirements