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Now, our journey record temporarily comes to an end. We have had a wonderful summer, and we will continue to improve our software. It is not goodbye, it is hello to new stage.

We made a game called‘Bacteria War’ based on android platform as a part of human practice, which could be controlled by accelerometer or joystick. When a player open the game, he’ll see a brief introduction of iGEM in the home page. And we began to prepare the PPT and presentation draft for the Giant Jamboree.

The technology group recorded and analyzed some known bugs. And all of us agreed that we needed to purchase a dedicated server to ensure the normal operation of the system and stable operation. One another important action is that we started to design the software test which were in charge of Xue Yang. Besides, Zhao Yi have reported the potential problems of the server, and we discussed the solutions.

About human practice, we came up with a new plan: print our work content on the mobile phone shells and distribute them as gifts to the students in our school. In addition, we would place the homemade small mobile phone cameras we made before on the shells.

At the beginning of August, we summarized everyone’s work progress, and then we dealt with some exact details, such as whether the color of wiki needed unifying to that of software. After a heated discussion, we decided that the basic color of the whole project was green, which represented not only peace, also the vitality or synthetic biology. In addition, we found a new Api database, which means that we should make a decision: change or not?

During the summer, we had a more detailed plan about work arrangements. In this week, the basic marking scheme was determined. We have got public server and uploaded the server code. The first interface of the software have been completed. The basic ICONS and the first interface have been embellished. The algorithm 1 and the Wiki page have been completed, everything gone well. The App has been completed and the progress was consistent to the client computer work.

During this time, we knew a lot about ZFN TALEN CRISPR and a series of related software. We focused on every software’s structure setting and the principle of running, and then we discussed a clear-cut schedule: Nowadays we are conceiving the frame of the software and the function of each part. In July and August, we are to realize all of these functions and complete related documents. In September, the project will be improved and embellished. Besides, we decided to design a FLASH for introducing our software.

During this time, we knew about a series of emerging technology by reading papers and consulting our professors. Then we had a heated discussion about if changing our project or not. Finally we made a decision, we gave up the old title, and chose a new research direction, which was CRISPR - X: a sgRNA design tool for genome editing in synthetic biology..

In cooperation with the members from UESTC - China, we came to Chengdu No.7 senior high school, which is the best high school in Chengdu, for a lecture about the iGEM and synthetic biology. The students showed great enthusiasm and interest in our work. I believe in the near future, they will also become a member just like us, continue to strive for the future of synthetic biology.

We have regular meeting once a week.At the second meeting , we divided 13 people into three groups and assigned job to each team member.Refer to the project which was completed in the tryout, we determined our project titles as To Detect the concentration of e.coli by the homemade mobile phone cameras.After that, we read a large amount of academic papers in order to find the best way of detecting and we shared ideas which we got from the papers.