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<h2>Our Tracks</h2>
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<h5>The New Application- "Catch-All" Track </h5>
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Our project is multifaceted and we've worked on many fronts. We have introduced a new chassis, opening iGEM to the vast potential of the plant world.<br>
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<p>Mösbi uses <em>Marchantia polymorpha</em>
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The New Applications tracks in iGEM is possibly the most difficult to describe. Without using the term "catch-all", there is a certain diversity of projects that is not found as much in other tracks. New Application teams work to create novel, forward thinking projects and innovative ideas that don't fit into conventional paradigms.
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New Application is an apt description for a track that doesn't have a common problem, or focus tying all projects together. It is the novelty of ideas and approach in investigating a question that may never have previously been examined that qualifies a project in the New Application track.
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<p>Innovative ideas are needed to make Synthetic Biology cheap and more open to access. We have taken up the challenge to tackle this core limitation. Our unconventional solution is to modularise plant strains which can then be crossed by simple Mendelian genetics.</p>
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<p>Information Processing in iGEM covers a diverse range of projects. Like the Foundational Advance track, IP teams are not trying to solve a real world problem with practical applications, but to tackle an interesting problem that might otherwise not attract attention. Teams enter this track if they are attempting projects such as building elements of a biological computer, creating a game using biology or working on a signal processing challenges.
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Engineering ways to make biological systems perform computation is one of the core goals of synthetic biology. We generally work at the DNA level, engineering systems to function using BioBricks. In most biological systems, protein-protein interactions are where the majority of processing takes place. Being able to design proteins to accomplish computation would allow for systems to function on a much faster timescale than the current transcription-translation paradigm. These are some of the challenges that face teams entering projects into the Information Processing track in iGEM. </p>
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New Application teams work to create novel, forward thinking projects and innovative ideas that don't fit into conventional paradigms.
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It is the novelty of ideas and approach in investigating a question that may never have previously been examined that qualifies a project in the New Application track.
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The Foundational Advance track allows teams to come up with novel solution to technical problems surrounding core synbio technologies.
 

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Our Tracks

1- New Application

2- Foundational Advance

3- Information Processing


New Application

Mösbi uses Marchantia polymorpha



Foundational Advance

Innovative ideas are needed to make Synthetic Biology cheap and more open to access. We have taken up the challenge to tackle this core limitation. Our unconventional solution is to modularise plant strains which can then be crossed by simple Mendelian genetics.



Information Processing

Information Processing in iGEM covers a diverse range of projects. Like the Foundational Advance track, IP teams are not trying to solve a real world problem with practical applications, but to tackle an interesting problem that might otherwise not attract attention. Teams enter this track if they are attempting projects such as building elements of a biological computer, creating a game using biology or working on a signal processing challenges.
Engineering ways to make biological systems perform computation is one of the core goals of synthetic biology. We generally work at the DNA level, engineering systems to function using BioBricks. In most biological systems, protein-protein interactions are where the majority of processing takes place. Being able to design proteins to accomplish computation would allow for systems to function on a much faster timescale than the current transcription-translation paradigm. These are some of the challenges that face teams entering projects into the Information Processing track in iGEM.




New Application teams work to create novel, forward thinking projects and innovative ideas that don't fit into conventional paradigms. It is the novelty of ideas and approach in investigating a question that may never have previously been examined that qualifies a project in the New Application track.

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