Seekers

From the start, we planned to develop software tools to make the work of our team easier. We also want to share the tools with the iGEM Community to help everyone.

All the code is available as open source on GitHub and is free to be reused, modified or expanded. All of the projects can be found through our GitHub organization Quiet Sushi Force.

We made two different Seekers for making background research for iGEM projects a little easier. They are both written in JavaScript using the Angular.js library. The data in both is a massive JSON file that is easily modifiable and can be changed without doing any modifications to the code, so expanding the tools for the future only requires adding data.

Both use Yeoman for scaffolding and deployment and they are currently running on GitHub Pages, which is free and handles requests very fast, so they will stay available for the foreseeable future.

BioBrick Seeker

The major tools we made are the Seeker-brand tools. First we made BioBrick Seeker. to make searching for the needed BioBricks in the 2014 iGEM Distribution a bit easier. It can be used to find Bricks with a certain keyword or list all from a certain type. It even has a search for the part names to see if the Brick you need is in this year's distribution.

All of the code and installation instructions are available at the project's GitHub page.

Here's a screenshot of BioBrick Seeker and how it works if you want to search for a BioBrick that has the word 'fluorescent' in its description.

Team Seeker

The second seeker was Team Seeker., a tool to search through the project abstracts of past teams to see if something you've been thinking about has been done before and to find projects that work in a similar field to your own. It has a smart phrase search so writing anything in the search bar should bring up what you need.

All of the code and installation instructions are available at the project's GitHub page.

Here's a screenshot of Team Seeker.