Notes 20100607 iGEM Board Meeting

From SnOwy - Ed's Wiki Notebook

• Meetings have been steady
• Excellent turn out of new members
• Laboratory is working on the φc-31 project-- trouble shooting the donour strain now
• Checking if AIP has an effect on E. coli in the quorum-sensing project

Biocompiler

• Hardware descriptive language
• Components described with higher level terminology
• Logically transitions to low level assembly instructions
• UC Berkeley produced a language that can operate a robot to do synthetic bio
• Need to transcode our own high level instructions to UC Berkeley's assembly
• Need to understand UC Berkeley's next intentions
• Berkeley has had a history of collaboration, see Minnesota XML item
• This area is complex enough that we can get probably work on it for years without bumping heads with anyone else
• Dr. Charles: check out Craig Venter's too
• Biobricks
• Make pre-existing synthetic bio items available as biobricks