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Keycoli

• The first biological password that changes over time! Microorganism is transformed using BioBricks to produce secondary metabolites, initially the metabolites will be a simpler product such as fluorescent proteins. The secondary metabolites will be produced in a unique and random configuration and as as our "key". In order to produce this randomness, shuffling of metabolite expression levels via transposons or error prone RNase will be applied. To produce a unique configuration of the metabolite varying promoter expression levels will produce unique metabolites. This key will be used to open locked mechanism such as safes and secure doors. For the key to be practical it would need to be portable, this is where our key transport device comes in. It will consist of a similar design to a chemostat. Our Key colony metabolites will degrade a desired amount of time before they must be renewed from the Lock colony, when this occurs the configuration of the key is shuffled once again to ensure the key and lock are changing. Once the key has been transported to the locked object a juxtaposition of a detection technique such as gas chromotography or mass spectrometry and data comparison software will compare the secondary metabolites of the "key" microorganism to the "reference/lock" colony. If the metabolies of both colonies exceeds a threshold of similarity the locked object will become unlocked.
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