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Revision as of 15:09, 3 October 2014
Report
Synthetic biology is, compared to emerging technology such as nanotechnology, a relatively new subject and nowadays, most of the teams in iGEM are promoting iGEM and synthetic biology. It is important for societies to accept the conditions of a science for the sake of a more advanced research and development. The current status of knowledge distribution of synthetic biology is still yet to be even. Therefore iGEM community encourage teams to do some projects, aside from the main project, to communicate synthetic biology to the world.
This year our HKUST iGEM team decided to make specific project which analyse the evolution of human practice from year 2008 till 2013. We have taken more than 700 teams in the past 5 years and study the trend of human practice projects with the help of graphs. Our aim is to find out what is the impression of human practice in the eyes of the team members. The focus of our report for the trends are not only limited to a certain region. We widened our scope to analyse the whole entire iGEM team across the globe. Our motives are mainly classified to observe the mode of projects that were done for the past 5 years.
From this report, we hope that future iGEM teams might look into it and understand the classification of different projects being done and decide on their own about the most effective way to introduce iGEM and synthetic biology to the world.
You can download the complete report
here.
Introduction
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As the iGEM headquarters put effort to bring the topic of synthetic biology close to the society, more and more attention was given to human practice. In year 2008 to 2013, there was a total of 707 teams who joined the iGEM jamboree and received medals, and a total of 1387 human practice projects were conducted. |
But how well exactly has human practice developed over the years? How much attribution was made in each region? Are some types more commonly done than others? To answer these questions, HKUST iGEM 2014 team gathered all the information since the year 2008, hoping to see some correlation between regions and types of projects done, and some possible trends over the years. |
Teams who did HP each year
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This section primarily focus on the number of teams all in all over the regions from 2008 to 2013. The graph simply suggest that the number of teams who did human practice projects has significantly increased throughout the years, and the teams who did not do human practice projects are decreasing as time passed by. There may be a multiple reason for this cause. Primarily it would be due to the fact the synthetic biology and iGEM has increased its popularity and it is encouraged for teams to introduce synbio and iGEM to the society. This may also be caused due to the emergence of best human practice award. Therefore some teams are aiming to win it. To sum up, human practice has become an increasingly popular destination for iGEM teams, especially in recent years. |
Fig 1 .TTeams who did HP each year
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Projects done for each type
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This part of the report was established from the graph to distinguish the percentage of projects done within the 700 projects. Talks seem to be the majority of the types done in the past. 288 talks were delivered from year 2008 to 2013, taking 21% of the entire projects. 11% of the projects were performed in the form of survey, becoming the second largest portion. Workshops and Articles were the third biggest contributors, scoring 145 and 143 times respectively, taking 10% each of the entire projects. Books and Business were the least popular types, only 26 and 22 of them done in the past six years. The sole purpose of human practice is to expose the idea of synthetic biology out to the society, and the three types mentioned above fulfil the mission in a most obvious way. Teams introduce their projects by holding conferences, observe and analyse people’s knowledge and perspective on synthetic biology by conducting surveys, and provide the opportunity for people to witness their working environment and attain hands on experience by giving lab tours and various workshops. In contrast, types like books and business seems not yet fully developed comparatively because making this type of project and reaching to the society are more challenging. But books and business, if done amazingly, can touch the people more deeply. |
Projects done for each type in each region
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It can also be concluded from the graph that Latin America, compared to other regions, have higher interest in holding workshops. Europe on the other hand, shows a higher percentage in using social media platforms as a form of Human Practice project. The teams in Asia are more comfortable with conducting survey than the other regions. The European and North American teams shows to have higher consideration in writing an article comparatively than Asia and Latin America. |
When it comes to other types of projects such as business, books, visit investigation, game, video and art, there cannot be a definite conclusion which can affect the whole point of this section. This is mainly due to the low percentage or amount of these type of projects being made. So to wrap it up, the teams in each regions have their own preference in how to deliver their human practice projects. |
Teams who did HP in each region
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In each region, it can be deduced that the number of teams who did human practice project in each region differ from one another. Graph 4.1 indicates the relationship between the percentage of teams who did human practice project in each region and graph 4.2 indicates the number of teams in each region. Judging by the value indicated in graph 4.1, it can be concluded that all the teams in Africa did human practice project. But in relation to graph 4.2, there exists only 1 team who won a bronze medal or above from Africa. Hence Africa shows a 100% occurrence in graph 4.1, from that 1 team in graph 4.2. The results from graph 4.1 also indicate that approximately 90% of the teams in Latin America did human practice project and roughly 79% of the teams in Europe and Asia. North America scores the lowest among the region with approximately 62% of the teams did human practice project. The evidence shown from graph 4.2 in relation to graph 1 is quite surprising especially towards North America. Despite the fact that North America has the most number of teams, it seems that compare to the other regions, North America did not show as much attitude towards human practice, in reference to the data in graph 4.1. It can be concluded that from the values of the percentage of number of team who did human practice project in each region is different from one another. |
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