The typical design, build and fabrication flow utilized in microfluidics requires a significant intellectual investment, technical agility, a high startup cost and a time investment. The previous iGEM Hardware Team in conjunction with CIDAR Lab have created an alternative software workflow tackling design and manufacturing. What our team focused on is the implementation stage of this workflow. Ensuring that synthetic biologists are able to effectively use the tools provided to them.
The main goals of MARS are to:
- Increase accessibilty of Microfluidics
- Design chips that are relevant to the day to day protocols in synthetic biology labs which can be used together to perform more complex protocols
- Create and provide a standardised method of evaluating chips functionality