iGEM Highlights

Register for iGEM 2014!

There is still time to participate in iGEM 2014,
register before May 1 at
2014.igem.org!

Want to see who
else is participating?
See the current
list of teams.

Are you organizing a team meet-up this season?
Tell us about it and we will help promote your
event on our new
Meet-ups page.

Funding and Collaboration Opportunity

Are you looking for an exciting Policy & Practices challenge?
Would you like to work with science museums, think tanks, and other institutions in Europe and around the world?

Join the
iGEM-SYNENERGENE partnership!
In association with the Rathenau Instituut.

A new calendar will be available every month with helpful dates and information to help you stay organized.
April calendar.

Get to know the Registry!

The next step is to start brainstorming project and part ideas. One of the major resources for conducting your work throughout the summer will be the iGEM Registry of Standard Biological Parts. In this newsletter, we will share some highlights and useful tools as you prepare to receive the 2014 Distribution Kit and begin working in the lab.
2014 DNA Distribution Kits are being manufactured and are scheduled to ship at the end of April. Stay tuned to parts.igem.org and 2014.igem.org for additional information.
Not part of an iGEM team but interested in standard biological parts?
No problem! Just enroll your academic lab in the iGEM Lab program.

Interchangeable Genetic Parts

The iGEM Registry of Standard Biological Parts is the world's largest collection of open source genetic parts or BioBricks®. These BioBricks all meet an established standard to ensure compatibility between parts, allowing them to be assembled together, mixed and matched to build novel devices and systems. With over 20,000 specified parts in the Registry, there is a wealth of information available to iGEM teams and lab groups.

How do you find what is most useful? How do you see what is available?

Here at the Registry, we have worked on creating collections of featured parts. Collections are groups of related parts based on current technologies, downstream applications, or notable features. For more on our collections or to browse the collection click here:
Registry’s Catalog of Parts & Device.

• CRISPR: The Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) system is one of the latest trends used to control gene expression. Last year 12 teams worked with CRISPR technology and we have 14 CRISPR-cas enzymes for different organisms. For more about our CRISPR collection click here:
http://parts.igem.org/Collections/CRISPR

•Chromoproteins and Other Reporters: Looking for a reporter protein? We have fluorescent proteins, chromoproteins, luciferase proteins and enzymes that you can use to get a visual output. Check out our collection of reporters and chromoproteins:
http://parts.igem.org/Protein_coding_sequences/Reporters

•Drug Delivery: With the promise of creating the next best therapeutic drug, diagnostic method or drug delivery system, iGEM teams have produced an impressive collection of Drug Delivery projects:
http://parts.igem.org/Collections/Drug_Delivery_Projects

•Bioremediation: With over 50 projects in Biosensors, Biosynthesis and Bioremediation, iGEM teams are constantly innovating in the field of Environmental Science and Bioremediation:
http://parts.igem.org/Collections/Bioremediation_Projects

•Hardware: From low cost lab equipment to new sensors, bioreactors, biomaterial and microfluidics systems, check out the devices our iGEM teams created in our collection of Hardware:
http://parts.igem.org/Collections/Hardware_Projects

•Most Frequently Used: The Registry can now keep track of which parts are used most often in other parts. Check out the Top 10 Most Frequently Used parts at
http://parts.igem.org/Frequently_Used_Parts

•Well Documented Parts: Gone are the days when documenting parts was a rare occurrence in the life cycle of an iGEM team. Teams and Registry users now provide more part documentation, including extensive measurement and characterization information. See a list of the Top 10 Most Documented Parts in different categories at
http://parts.igem.org/Well_Documented_Parts.

As an iGEM partner, MathWorks will provide software and technical support to all iGEM teams that request it. For more information,click here!

Go to our DNA Synthesis Page and just put in your part or sequence.
You can add the BioBrick ends and it will even check for RFC 10 compatibility in your sequence! We recommend using IDT to synthesize DNA.

iGEM has partnered with LabGenius to bring you better plasmid mapping tools. With LabGenius Plasmid Visualization you can now see how parts and plasmid backbones look as circular DNA. Simply click on the ‘View Plasmid’ link on a part's Design Page to view the plasmid map.

The Registry is a continuously growing community collection of parts that runs and grows on our ‘get, give & share’ philosophy. iGEM Team and Lab members get parts from the Registry.
They give back to the Registry Repository their new parts, devices, and systems and share their data and experiences with the iGEM community.

Our iGEM Lab program allows any academic research laboratory to request parts from our growing Registry free of charge.
Just enroll in the iGEM Lab program here and start requesting parts today.

Have more questions or new to iGEM and the Registry?
To learn more about the Registry go to: http://parts.igem.org/Help