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      <h2 id="slogan">Synbio is just a S-Din away!</h2>
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        <h2>Overview</h2>
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        <p>During our project "S-Din", we brainstormed many aspects concerning our project, and took them into practices to confirm or to overturn our hypothesis. Then, we tried to integrate them into our final project in order to improve the project functions and user experience.</p>
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        <p>Through discussions, interviews with professionals or scholars in different fields, and search related policies, we had a better awareness of our project in the context of scientific inspiration, societal attention, safety and security, and legal considerations.</p>
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        <p>When designing the project we integrated many fine details into the software. We tried hard to make more positive contributions to scientific and societal practices, and reduce and even eliminate the potential negative impacts.</p>
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        <p>Combined with user needs investigation and social promotion, our project is a new product in fact. We wrote a user statement for our product.</p>
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        <p>We also communicated with public in our special activities and what we learned from them.</p>
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        <p>We also acknowledge all the help and collaborations with other iGEM teams and express our sincere gratitude to them.</p>
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<p>iGEM teams are leading in the area of Human Practices because they conduct their projects within a social/environmental context, to better understand issues that might influence the design and use of their technologies.</p>
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      <h2>Silver</h2>
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<p>Teams work with students and advisors from the humanities and social sciences to explore topics concerning ethical, legal, social, economic, safety or security issues related to their work. Consideration of these Human Practices is crucial for building safe and sustainable projects that serve the public interest. </p>
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<p>For more information, please see the <a href="https://2017.igem.org/Competition/Human_Practices">Human Practices page</a>.</p>
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        <p>During the project, we brainstormed many aspects concerning our project. These aspects can be roughly divided into two basic problems:</p>
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          <li> What advantages will our project have to raise scientists’ ideas, which may lead to a wonderful genetic design? Or what to raise ordinary bio-lovers’ interest, which may attract them to learn more about synthetic biology?</li>
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          <li>What impacts will our project have in different fields of society?</li>
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        <p>Through discussions, interviews with professionals or scholars in different fields, and search related policies, we had a better awareness of our project in the context of scientific inspiration, societal attention, safety and security, and legal considerations. These inspirations help us improve our S-Din a lot.</p>
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      <h3>Interview of other iGEM teams and ordinary bio-lovers</h3>
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      <p>Every production (including a software) is designed for users' needs. We hope to learn about what problems other iGEM teams meet, and to analyze what they need to solve their problems. What’s more, the intention of ordinary amateurs is also supposed to be taken into account.</p>
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        <p>This summer, we were very glad to communicate with an iGEM team NJU-China. They got in trouble when they urgently needed to collect some data online, what happened to be our strong point as we are a software team. We provided a script to them and solved their problems. Check <a href="./collaboration.html" target="_blank">collaboration</a> for more details.</p>
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        <p>And then we communicated with NJU-China team members on reasons for their problem. We found that their problem was probably based on fragmented data.</p>
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        <p>We conducted a discussion among our team members about fragmented data, and the detail of our thoughts and the discussion can be found in our <a href="#nju-practice">Integrated Human Practice section</a> below </p>
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        <p>At the same time, we chatted with some students who are interested in biology work. They told us, “We’ll like the software if it shows details of each bio-project, in a way easy to understand.”</p>
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      <p>An Integrated database is very important for an iGEM team, also for research group. Our software is supposed to establish such a database in a standard and easy-to-understand format. It will save one's time, which enables one to focus on his project ideas.</p>
  
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      <p>Apart from iGEM teams, biology labs and other biotechnology institutes have more rights to speak from a genetic circuit design in papers to a practical experiment protocol in labs. It is also very interesting and exciting to meet them who will be most likely to be affected by our project imagine.</p>
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        <p>During the summer, we visited several biology laboratories of Sun Yat-sen University. Researchers warmly greeted us. Thanks to Prof. Lu Yongjun’s help, we finished our interlab task and wet-lab validation in his laboratory. </p>
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        <p class="fig-ep">Figure1: Our team member Wang Ziwei is introducing our project idea to Prof. Lu and another researcher.</p>
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        <p>By talking with researchers working in the lab, we were surprised that lack of ideas is one of the common problems when they work on a synthetic biology project.</p>
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        <p>Since ideas are so significant to a project, where do researchers’ ideas usually come from? We did a small survey of researchers in several labs.</p>
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        <p>We learned that the majority of researchers’ idea source is professional research articles and journals, they work before, but a novel idea may arouse from them if the researcher reuses their essence and aims to an accessible direction. However, each paper usually describes its design in the author’s own style and standard, which is usually hard to understand and absorb its design ideas for one’s own creative work.</p>
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        <p>How to trigger one’s inspiration is a challenge for us, because “inspiration” is such an abstract concept, and is hard to measure. But hope is still alive: several related previous work may create a new idea. To find out related projects and to guide users to a clearer direction, are what we consider to achieve in our software. </p>
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<p>Convince the judges you have thought carefully and creatively about whether your work is safe, responsible and good for the world. You could accomplish this through engaging with your local, national and/or international communities or other approaches. Please note that standard surveys will not fulfill this criteria.</p>
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      <p>To know more policies which may affect our project, and to discuss about the questions we don't understand in policies.</p>
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      <p>We searched the related safety policies on iGEM website. We got together and discussed any problems if we couldn't understand the policies. Specially, we discussed the biosafety issues and chassis from different risk group.</p>
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      <p>The risk group of chassis is one of the safety standards to assess the chassis. Besides, whether a part is attained "Red Flag" tag or not is another way iGEM uses. As a completed software for synthetic biology, S-Din should engage this function. </p>
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        <p>In September, our team visited Prof. He Zhumei, a biosafety advisor from Biosafety Committee of Sun Yat-sen University. He not only researches biology, but also devotes to guiding the public to bioethics and biosafety.</p>
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        <p>Prof. He was surprised by our visit. He said it was commendable for us to consult biosafety problems. Half an hour of happy communications, Prof. He patiently answered our confusion, and gives a lot of new aspects to think about the perspective of bioethics.</p>
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        <p>Prof. He emphasized the signification of biosafety awareness, and the real biosafety is supposed to be reflected in each step of operation. As a development team for biology software, it is our responsibility to remind the users to follow safe and reliable design principles, and to warn the users of dangerous operations. This proposal from Prof. He filled with new inspiration for us.</p>
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        <p>After the consult to Prof. He, we realized that we have more responsibilities of biosafety warning and guiding. What’s more, it would be better if we establish a way of communication with users. We’ll finish this goal by improving our interactive interface with users.</p>
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      <p>We developed a software this year. The software may collect users’ information of interests, account and activity on the webside, and use the information for further functions. It’s our responsibility to protect user privacy. So we need to learn and follow relevant policies. </p>
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      <p>We consulted Mr. Li Yuzheng for related software policies and practices. Mr. Li majors in software, and has worked in Microsoft Research Asia. He told us that it is necessary to write a software statement, and show the statement to users when they first use our software. Only when users agree to provide their private information can our software collect and use it.</p>
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      <p class="fig-ep">Figure 5: Photo of Mr. Li Yuzheng. Thanks for giving advice on software statements.</p>
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      <p>According to Mr. Li's advice, we checked our software again, made sure that we never collect users' private information without agreements, and wrote a software statement with the help of legal professionals. See <a href="./statements.html" target="_blank">statements</a></p>
  
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        <p>In our project, we hoped to collect and show some excellent iGEM projects posted on igem.org and research papers published in academic journals, in order to enrich our integrated database and offer better resources to users. Although we’re non-profit all the time, we are still supposed to consider intellectual property issues.</p>
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        <p>We consulted Prof. Li Yang on intellectual property issues. Prof. Li was from School of Law, Sun Yat-sen University, researching laws of intellectual property. We introduced the specifics of the literature citation to Prof. Li. He carefully helped us understand the citation terms and conditions, and explained how the paper license works. With his help, we make sure that we’re approval to use every paper and every iGEM project in our database.</p>
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      <p>The awareness of intellectual property is very critical for us, especially when we design an open website to share others’ papers and other achievements.</p>
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        <p>When designing the project we have come up with many fine details for the software. Some came from our original ideas, others came from professionals in different fields. (See <a href="#silver">silver</a>)</p>
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        <p>We tried hard to put these inspirational details into application of our software "S-Din". We tried to make more positive contributions to scientific and societal practices, and reduce and even eliminate the potential negative impacts.</p>
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      <h3>Integrated database</h3>
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      <h4>Inspirations we have learned</h4>
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      <div class="paragraph">
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        <p>By communicating with other iGEM teams, and chatting with different bio-lovers, we realized that fragmented data costs a lot of time and energy. We hope to establish such a database in S-Din, in a standard and easy-to-understand format. It will save one's time, which enables one to focus on his project ideas.</p>
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      </div>
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      <h4>Integrated into project</h4>
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      <div class="paragraph">
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        <p>In S-Din's database, we standardize a new data format for different types of data: parts, projects, key words and papers. Based on this format, our database is integrated into a unity, and accessible to set up interaction network and analysis. The S-Din search engine and S-Din Design are both working under this standard. </p>
  
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        <p class="fig-ep center">Figure 7: 20 standard parts in S-Din. </p>
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        <p class="fig-ep center">Figure 8: Each genetic design uses standard parts and interaction lines.</p>
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        <p class="fig-ep center">Figure 9: According to the standard data format, users can add their new parts to S-Din's database. </p>
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      <h3>Key Words Tree &amp; Network Analysis</h3>
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      <h4>Inspirations we have learned:</h4>
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      <div class="paragraph">
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        <p>We interviewed several lab researchers, and found that how to trigger one’s inspiration is a challenge for us, but several related previous work may create a new idea. To find out related projects and to guide users to a clearer direction, are what we consider to realize in our software. </p>
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      <h4>Integrated into project:</h4>
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      <div class="paragraph">
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        <p>In order to stimulate one's inspiration in synbio work design, we tried the following explorations: The tree of words, and network analysis.</p>
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        <p><b>The tree of words:</b> When you first enter the search engine of S-Din, you could search any word you like, or try selecting a word to explore more! When clicking, You will see the subordinated words. After few repeats, you will finally get the projects that you want. This function is designed to help specify your need, and help you understand your idea better.</p>
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        <p class="fig-ep center">Figure 10: Keyword Tree.</p>
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        <p><span class="bold">network analysis: </span>This function is designed to help you find out potential interaction between two parts, projects or key words. Sometimes the recommendation may be hard to understand, but perhaps it would open a new direction and lots of inspiration for you.</p>
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        <img id="ped-fig10" src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2017/e/e5/T--SYSU-Software--hp_fig10.jpg" alt="" class="middle centered black-shadowed">
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        <p class="fig-ep center">Figure 11: Our analysis function shows the score of keyword "cell" in different years when searching "cell" in S-Din.</p>
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      <h3>S-Din Statements</h3>
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      <h4>Inspirations we have learned</h4>
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      <div class="paragraph">
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        <p>According to Mr. Li Yuzheng's advice, it is necessary to write a software statement, and show the statement to users when they first use our software. Only when users agree to provide their private information can our software collect and use it. What's more, Prof. He Zhumei reminded us of adding biosafety statements and interactive interface with users. </p>
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      <h4>Integrated into project</h4>
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      <div class="paragraph">
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        <p>We combined the software statement with biosafety statement, then wrote the integrated S-Din statements. See <a href="./statements.html" target="_blank">statements</a>, which consists of Terms of use, Bio-safety Alerts, Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy.</p>
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      <h2>Integrated Human Practice</h2>
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      <p>S-Din is a product born for solving synthetic biological problems and serving the biologists and ordinary people who are interested in synthetic biology. In our "Integrated Human Practices" page, we'll show essential human practices work we have done around S-Din, including user needs analysis, function improvement for user feedback, product assessment and public promotion.</p>
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      <h3>User needs analysis</h3>
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      <h4 id="nju-practice">Study the needs of other iGEM teams &amp; ordinary bio-lovers</h4>
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      <div class="paragraph">
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        <p>We helped NJU-China iGEM team solve their problem, and communicated with them about problems they met. ("<a href="./collaboration.html#nju-china">Collaboration</a>" page for more details) We found that their problem was probably based on ----fragmented data.</p>
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        <p>We conducted a discussion among our team members about fragmented data. Nowadays data or information online is abundant but scattered. Many people spend much time on integrating them by themselves----In fact, they should spend more time on their ideas for their core work. </p>
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        <p class="fig-ep center">Figure 12: How a man may assign his time in a project when getting integrated data by himself</p>
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        <p>In fact, this trouble is possible to be solved ---- by a dedicated software. If we could establish an integrated database, consisting of unified standard of data composition and data format, we should find out the relationships among the data more easily. Besides, a data format standard makes it more convenient and engineering to store, reuse and combine the data. And engineering work is what computers are good at. </p>
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        <p>So our team desired to change the work flow into the figure below: </p>
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        <p class="fig-ep center">Figure 13: How a man may assign his time in a project when getting integrated data with a dedicated software.</p>
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        <h4>Study the needs of ordinary bio-lovers</h4>
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        <p>At the same time, we chatted with some students who are interested in biology work. They told us: </p>
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        <p class="quote">"We'll like the software if it shows details of each bio-project, in a way easy to understand."</p>
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        <p class="quote">"It would be better if the software can provide basic analysis of the work."</p>
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        <p class="quote">"Could you develop a software which can recommend interesting projects of my own?"</p>
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        <p class="quote">...</p>
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        <p>We found that the needs above are the most popular. To achieve these goals, an enough huge and integrated database is critical. Of course, mathematical algorithms should be equipped in our software. </p>
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        <h4>Studying the needs of biology labs</h4>
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        <p>During the summer, we visited several biology laboratories of Sun Yat-sen University. Researchers warmly greeted us. Thanks to Prof. Lu Yongjun's help, we finished our interlab task and wet-lab validation in his laboratory. Meanwhile, we chatted with the researchers and conducted a small survey of their project idea. </p>
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        <p>By talking with researchers working in the lab, we were surprised that lack of ideas is one of the common problems when they work on a synthetic biology project. </p>
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        <p><span class="quote">“A good beginning is half done. That is to say, a good idea of genetic circuit design is half done of the whole project.”</span> A researcher named Dong told us. </p>
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        <p>Since ideas are so significant to a project, where do researchers' ideas usually come from? We did a small survey of researchers in several labs. </p>
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        <p class="fig-ep">Figure 14: The sources distribution of researchers' project idea.</p>
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        <p>From the figures above, we learned that the majority of researchers’ idea source is professional research articles and journals ---- <span class="bold">they work before, but a novel idea may arouse from them if the researcher reuses their essence and aims to an accessible direction.</span> However, each paper usually describes its design in the author’s own style and standard, which is usually hard to understand and absorb its design ideas for one’s own creative work. </p>
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        <p><span class="quote">“We all hope to stand on shoulders of the giant, but it's hard at this stage to combine or transfer the senior's ideas in order to form my own ideas.”</span> Researcher Dong said. </p>
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        <p>How to trigger one's inspiration? What if our software could help people with inspiration? This "Inspiration" inspires all of us. However, it is a challenge for us, because “inspiration” is such an abstract concept, and is hard to measure and specify. But hope is still alive: several related previous work may create a new idea. To find out related projects and to guide users to a clearer direction, are what we consider to realize in our software. </p>
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        <p>Thanks to the inspiration flashed across our mind, we decided to create an onomatopoeia "S-Din" as our project and software's name, as it sounds like a light bulb lightens suddenly. </p>
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      <h3>Needs &amp; Functions Integration</h3>
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      <p>Here are S-Din's core functions we developed for users' needs</p>
 +
      <h4>Integrated database</h4>
 +
      <div class="paragraph">
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        <p>In S-Din's database, we standardize a new data format for different types of data: parts, projects, key words and papers. Based on this format, our database is integrated into a unity, and accessible to set up interaction network and analysis. The S-Din search engine and S-Din Design are both working under this standard.</p>
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      </div>
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      <h4>Keyword Tree &amp; Network Analysis</h4>
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      <div class="paragraph">
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        <p>In order to stimulate one's inspiration in synbio work design, we tried the following explorations: The tree of words, and network analysis.</p>
 +
        <p><b>The tree of words:</b> When you first enter the search engine of S-Din, you could search any word you like, or try selecting a word to explore more! When clicking, You will see the subordinated words. After few repeats, you will finally get the projects that you want. This function is designed to help specify your need, and help you understand your idea better.</p>
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        <p><b>Network analysis:</b> This function is designed to help you find out potential interaction between two parts, projects or key words. Sometimes the recommendation may be hard to understand, but perhaps it would open a new direction and lots of inspiration for you.</p>
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        <p>To learn more about these functions, check <a href="#gold">gold section</a> for details</p>
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      </div>
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      <h3>Project Assessment</h3>
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      <h4>Safety assessment</h4>
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      <div class="paragraph">
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        <p>We examined all parts in our database, and no part is from chassis of Risk Group 3/4. The "Unknown" parts are examined again with <a href="https://www.dsmz.de/catalogues/catalogue-microorganisms.html" target="_blank">DSMZ Database</a>. They are safe enough.</p>
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        <p class="fig-ep">Figure 15: Risk group distribution of parts in S-Din's database.</p>
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        <p>We checked the parts again to judge if it has "Red Flag" tag. Only 26 parts is tagged. Since we are dedicated to providing an open platform for synthetic biology, the user won’t be limited if they search for ‘Red Flag’ parts; However, users will be warned and advised not to do so once they attempt to design new circuits with ‘Red Flag’ parts.</p>
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        <img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2017/b/b2/T--SYSU-Software--safety_red-flag.png" alt="" class="middle centered">
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        <p class="fig-ep">Figure 16: Red Flag part distribution in S-Din's database.</p>
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      <h4>Societal effect assessment</h4>
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      <div class="paragraph">
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        <p>Once we had ideas of S-Din, we interviewed professionals or scholars in different fields, and searched related policies. We had a better awareness of our project in the context of scientific inspiration, societal attention, safety and security, and legal considerations.</p>
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        <p>When S-Din was finished, we introduced it to the professionals. With their advice and help, we wrote a product statement combined with four parts: Terms of use, Bio-safety Alerts, Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy.</p>
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        <p>See <a href="./statements.html" target="_blank">statements page</a> for more detail</p>
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      <h3>Public promotion</h3>
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      <div class="paragraph">
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        <p>When S-Din start to take shape, we promoted it to several iGEM teams and biology laboratories. They were interested in our software and tried out, then we were glad to recieve their encouraging user assessment:</p>
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        <p class="quote">"Your database is wonderful! Our project may be more smoothly if cooperated with S-Din!" by Hong_Kong_HKUST</p>
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        <p class="quote">"An integrated software for synbio community." by SCAU-CHINA</p>
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        <p class="quote">"An inspiring try, I like it very much. Hope it will be more perfect in the future, and our lab could really use it." by Researcher Shen from Prof. Lu Yongjun's laboratory</p>
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        <img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2017/b/b0/T--SYSU-Software--hp_figxx.png" class="ui image centered middle">
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        <p class="fig-ep center">Figure 17: We recommended S-Din to Prof. Lu Yongjun and other researchers. </p>
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        <p>Ordinary bio-lovers are also interested in S-Din, especially its name. </p>
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        <p><span class="quote">"The name 'S-Din' is cool! I like it!"</span> by Lin</p>
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        <p><span class="quote">"The software is smart! How does it know what I really want to search?"</span> by Zheng</p>
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        <p><span class="quote">"What if S-Din can recommend some daily headlines, like a newspaper, Synthetic Biology Daily?"</span> by Li</p>
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        <img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2017/4/45/T--SYSU-Software--hp_figxx2.png" class="ui image centered middle">
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        <p class="fig-ep center">Figure 18: We introduced our product S-Din to ordinary students of SCAU. </p>
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        <p>We are very excited to witness a hit from public when S-Din first met with them. Although this version of S-Din is still primary, we'll continue to create a better product.</p>
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        <p class="center">Synbio is just a S-din away. </p>
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      <h2>Public Engagement</h2>
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      <p>iGEM is not only a competition standing at the front of synthetic biology, but also a good chance and a platform to introduce synthetic biology to the public. Further, we should never “work behind closed doors” — though non-technical individuals may lack knowledge about synbio, they might provide us with many sparkling ideas and inspirations on our projects -- That's also S-Din's goal. More importantly, if our project is hardly understandable to the general public, then it cannot be a successful one. If we can establish a bi-directional communication with the public, we can get more feedbacks on our project and, based on the feedbacks, we can make our project more accessible not only to the scientists but also to the public.</p>
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      <h3>Biology Festival: introduction synthetic biology to public</h3>
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      <div class="paragraph">
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        <p>Collaborated with SYSU_CHINA iGEM team, we held a parade in the campus to introduce synthetic biology to the public. Our audiences included students of life sciences and many other majors, teachers of different backgrounds, and residents in the campus who are neither students nor teachers. Our parade includes 2 parts: Design a circuit; Project sharing.</p>
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        <p>As for the “Design a Circuit” part, we designed a funny game. The participants were allowed to design gene circuit based on the genetic parts provided by us for specific purpose. At first, we thought this game would be very easy. All they need to do is just put the genetic parts in the right orders to complete a circuit. The situation, however, is quite different from what we expected. We explained to them what the promoter is, but it was so hard for them to understand, not to mention completing a circuit. Since most of the students lacked related knowledge, few students attended this game. And those who attended this game required a lot of hints to finish the circuit.</p>
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        <p>In terms of the “Project Sharing” part, we presented the project of 2015, CORE. We demonstrated the function of our software. They also gave us some suggestions.</p>
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        <p>"Although I can't understand more about synthetic biology, I still feel very interested in your work and ideas." To our surprise, a student told us when the Biology Festival ended.</p>
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        <p class="fig-ep center">Many people are attracted by our parade in Biology Festival. </p>
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      <h3>"Bio-Lab Rescue": game promotion</h3>
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        <p>In many people's eyes, synthetic biology is mysterious and hard to understand. We hope to change this situation. We think synthetic biology is also funny and easy to get close to ordinary people — if we integrate the principle of synbio into online games.</p>
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        <p>In the summer, our team designed and developed a game "Bio-Lab Rescue". We hope to spread synthetic biology in a funny way. And we promoted the game around our university, and posted its URL on social medias.</p>
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        <p class="fig-ep">Bio-Lab Rescue Game</p>
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        <div class="paragraph">
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          <p>Obviously many students were attracted by the game. They were very excited and gave many advice to us about improving the game experience. When we asked the players if they realized the topic we wanted to tell them, a player said yes and described what he learned from our game, which encouraged us a lot. However, he is the minority who can understand the game. We should think more about the combination of knowledge and entertainment, and how to spread synthetic biology.</p>
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      <h3>Mini lectures for freshmen &amp; high school students</h3>
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      <div class="paragraph">
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        <p>We held several mini lectures for freshmen and high school students. In these lectures, we introduced our project this year -- S-Din, as well as principles of synthetic biology. We received their remarks to our project. From communication with them, we found some previous defect of S-Din, and their views help us think more about the project and improve it.</p>
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        <p class="fig-ep">A mini lecture about iGEM projects for students of Guangzhou No. 2 Middle School.</p>
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      <h3>"Synbio Summit" with people from different fields</h3>
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      <div class="paragraph">
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        <p>What would happen if people from different fields get together to talk about synthetic biology? We decided to have a try -- to hold "Synbio Summit".</p>
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        <p>We invited guests majoring in sociology, computer science, environmental science, law and so on. At the beginnning of the summit, we introduced the basic concepts of synthetic biology, and express our previous thinking about what synbio will affect other fields. Participants were the first time to learn about synthetic biology, but they gave their opinions to us, including phrase, puzzles and worries after they realized what synbio may do with everyone's life. </p>
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        <p>For 1.5 hours, we talked about lots of topics around synthetic biology, including safety, societal effects, moral ethics and so on. We realized that we were not only the "teacher" in the field of synthetic biology, but also a humble student, for every field could teach us useful lessons.</p>
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        <p>Through communication, you'll know how your work affects the world, and how the world affects your work.</p>
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        <p class="fig-ep">Figure 26: Participants are discussing in "Synbio Summit". </p>
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        <p class="fig-ep">Figure 27: Synbio Summit. </p>
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Human Practice

Human Practice

Synbio is just a S-Din away!

SYSU-Software 2017

Overview

During our project "S-Din", we brainstormed many aspects concerning our project, and took them into practices to confirm or to overturn our hypothesis. Then, we tried to integrate them into our final project in order to improve the project functions and user experience.

Through discussions, interviews with professionals or scholars in different fields, and search related policies, we had a better awareness of our project in the context of scientific inspiration, societal attention, safety and security, and legal considerations.

When designing the project we integrated many fine details into the software. We tried hard to make more positive contributions to scientific and societal practices, and reduce and even eliminate the potential negative impacts.

Combined with user needs investigation and social promotion, our project is a new product in fact. We wrote a user statement for our product.

We also communicated with public in our special activities and what we learned from them.

We also acknowledge all the help and collaborations with other iGEM teams and express our sincere gratitude to them.

Silver

During the project, we brainstormed many aspects concerning our project. These aspects can be roughly divided into two basic problems:

  1. What advantages will our project have to raise scientists’ ideas, which may lead to a wonderful genetic design? Or what to raise ordinary bio-lovers’ interest, which may attract them to learn more about synthetic biology?
  2. What impacts will our project have in different fields of society?

Through discussions, interviews with professionals or scholars in different fields, and search related policies, we had a better awareness of our project in the context of scientific inspiration, societal attention, safety and security, and legal considerations. These inspirations help us improve our S-Din a lot.

Interview of other iGEM teams and ordinary bio-lovers

Motivation

Every production (including a software) is designed for users' needs. We hope to learn about what problems other iGEM teams meet, and to analyze what they need to solve their problems. What’s more, the intention of ordinary amateurs is also supposed to be taken into account.

Practices

This summer, we were very glad to communicate with an iGEM team NJU-China. They got in trouble when they urgently needed to collect some data online, what happened to be our strong point as we are a software team. We provided a script to them and solved their problems. Check collaboration for more details.

And then we communicated with NJU-China team members on reasons for their problem. We found that their problem was probably based on fragmented data.

We conducted a discussion among our team members about fragmented data, and the detail of our thoughts and the discussion can be found in our Integrated Human Practice section below

At the same time, we chatted with some students who are interested in biology work. They told us, “We’ll like the software if it shows details of each bio-project, in a way easy to understand.”

Inspirations on our project

An Integrated database is very important for an iGEM team, also for research group. Our software is supposed to establish such a database in a standard and easy-to-understand format. It will save one's time, which enables one to focus on his project ideas.

Studying the needs of biology labs

Motivation

Apart from iGEM teams, biology labs and other biotechnology institutes have more rights to speak from a genetic circuit design in papers to a practical experiment protocol in labs. It is also very interesting and exciting to meet them who will be most likely to be affected by our project imagine.

Practices

During the summer, we visited several biology laboratories of Sun Yat-sen University. Researchers warmly greeted us. Thanks to Prof. Lu Yongjun’s help, we finished our interlab task and wet-lab validation in his laboratory.

Figure1: Our team member Wang Ziwei is introducing our project idea to Prof. Lu and another researcher.

By talking with researchers working in the lab, we were surprised that lack of ideas is one of the common problems when they work on a synthetic biology project.

Since ideas are so significant to a project, where do researchers’ ideas usually come from? We did a small survey of researchers in several labs.

We learned that the majority of researchers’ idea source is professional research articles and journals, they work before, but a novel idea may arouse from them if the researcher reuses their essence and aims to an accessible direction. However, each paper usually describes its design in the author’s own style and standard, which is usually hard to understand and absorb its design ideas for one’s own creative work.

Inspiration of our project

How to trigger one’s inspiration is a challenge for us, because “inspiration” is such an abstract concept, and is hard to measure. But hope is still alive: several related previous work may create a new idea. To find out related projects and to guide users to a clearer direction, are what we consider to achieve in our software.

Learning related policies

Motivation

To know more policies which may affect our project, and to discuss about the questions we don't understand in policies.

Practices

We searched the related safety policies on iGEM website. We got together and discussed any problems if we couldn't understand the policies. Specially, we discussed the biosafety issues and chassis from different risk group.

Inspiration on our project

The risk group of chassis is one of the safety standards to assess the chassis. Besides, whether a part is attained "Red Flag" tag or not is another way iGEM uses. As a completed software for synthetic biology, S-Din should engage this function.

Figure2: Biology group discussing biology safety

Consulting the Biosafety and Ethics Advisor

Motivation

How to guide the public attention to bioethics and biosecurity, which is the urgent need before we design and develop our project. We are particularly concerned about one question:

What biosecurity risks are easily ignored by us in a virtual genetic design in the computer?

Practices

In September, our team visited Prof. He Zhumei, a biosafety advisor from Biosafety Committee of Sun Yat-sen University. He not only researches biology, but also devotes to guiding the public to bioethics and biosafety.

Figure 3: Prof. He Zhumei is explaining biosafety for us.

Prof. He was surprised by our visit. He said it was commendable for us to consult biosafety problems. Half an hour of happy communications, Prof. He patiently answered our confusion, and gives a lot of new aspects to think about the perspective of bioethics.

Prof. He emphasized the signification of biosafety awareness, and the real biosafety is supposed to be reflected in each step of operation. As a development team for biology software, it is our responsibility to remind the users to follow safe and reliable design principles, and to warn the users of dangerous operations. This proposal from Prof. He filled with new inspiration for us.

Inspirations on our project

After the consult to Prof. He, we realized that we have more responsibilities of biosafety warning and guiding. What’s more, it would be better if we establish a way of communication with users. We’ll finish this goal by improving our interactive interface with users.

Figure 4: Group photo with Prof. He Zhumei.

Consulting Microsoft staff about Information security

Motivation

We developed a software this year. The software may collect users’ information of interests, account and activity on the webside, and use the information for further functions. It’s our responsibility to protect user privacy. So we need to learn and follow relevant policies.

Practices

We consulted Mr. Li Yuzheng for related software policies and practices. Mr. Li majors in software, and has worked in Microsoft Research Asia. He told us that it is necessary to write a software statement, and show the statement to users when they first use our software. Only when users agree to provide their private information can our software collect and use it.

Figure 5: Photo of Mr. Li Yuzheng. Thanks for giving advice on software statements.

Inspirations on our project

According to Mr. Li's advice, we checked our software again, made sure that we never collect users' private information without agreements, and wrote a software statement with the help of legal professionals. See statements

Consultation on intellectual property issues

Motivation

In our project, we hoped to collect and show some excellent iGEM projects posted on igem.org and research papers published in academic journals, in order to enrich our integrated database and offer better resources to users. Although we’re non-profit all the time, we are still supposed to consider intellectual property issues.

Practices

We consulted Prof. Li Yang on intellectual property issues. Prof. Li was from School of Law, Sun Yat-sen University, researching laws of intellectual property. We introduced the specifics of the literature citation to Prof. Li. He carefully helped us understand the citation terms and conditions, and explained how the paper license works. With his help, we make sure that we’re approval to use every paper and every iGEM project in our database.

Figure 6: Photo with Prof. Li Yang.

Inspirations on our project

The awareness of intellectual property is very critical for us, especially when we design an open website to share others’ papers and other achievements.

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