Description

iGEM has been doing well. Synthetic biology has also been developing fast. But this thriving field and community, and their merits and inspirations, still cannot be easily accessed and fully appreciated by all of their enthusiasts. Existing synthetic biology solutions, created and elucidated by veterans, have been proved extremely inspirational to any SynBio enthusiasts. They want to create projects applying synthetic biology and tackle with various problems on our planet. However, they are held back by the inefficiency of data archiving we currently have. Our project aims to bridge the gap. This web-based, manually and algorithmically curated archiving and searching platform is to integrate the ideas and solutions from all validated iGEM projects, and render them intuitively accessible to users. Core data will be presented in a standardly formatted interface, which enables efficient yet accurate information mining. Our users will be greatly inspired by many genius solutions targeting real-world challenges, and be able to bring forward their own fully-fledged concepts and practices. In addition to this archive and search engine, there is an integrated auxiliary tool for designing genetic pathways. Users can readily drag those biological parts mentioned in search results into this tool, modify and improve the pathway, to yield new pathways with aimed functions. Other integrated functional modules, including bookmarks, sharing, and smart recommendation, will also help to deliver great functionality as well as great user experience.

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