Team:Hong Kong HKUST/human practice/start-up kit

Start-up Kit is the first comprehensive and handy tool that aims to help iGEM teams- particularly the new iGEMers, in initiating new human practice projects. Not only does it give iGEMers a quick guide to begin with, but it also provides them with a preliminary concept of human practice and analyzed data regarding the past projects, which will give teams a jumpstart to flexibly come up with their own novel human practice project.

HKUST iGEM 2014 team spent nearly the whole summer to collect information from past from all the human practice projects done in the past. This large set of data was used as baseground for the handbook, report, interview and the search engine. Each serves to interpret and make use of the database in a different way. For instance, handbook condensed the database into simple numbers to represent frequency of types of projects done in the past. Report, on the other hand, incorporate the data to observe the general trend regaring human practice througout the iGEM history. Interview’s questions were formed to reflect iGEM judges’ view on the previously done projects. Last but not least, search engine help find the desired information from the mass database in an easier manner. Yet, due to the complexity and high level of computer coding knowledge required for the task, we decided to reach out for help. Kevin Christian Wongso, a graduate of HKUST class 2014, has a bachelor degree in computer science. Thanks to his help, now users are able to serach for information they want by simply typing a few keywords.