Safety

Safety Training

Safety is an important aspect of the iGEM project requirements, and we understand and respect that. As a software team, we do no work in any wet lab capacity, but just as safety training teaches best practices and behaviours in lab, we have used our safety training to employ best practices and behaviours in developing software. We have covered topics including but not limited to: using GitHub, commenting/documenting code, and how to abstract/re-factor code.

We did not use formal lab safety materials as we did not work in any lab at all.

Who is responsible for biological safety at our institution?

Department of Environment, Health & Safety at UCSD. The project has not been discussed with the department as we anticipate no safety hazards. You can find the biosafety guidelines of our institution here.

Also, these are the regulations that govern biosafety in general in research laboratories in the United States: http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/labsafety.html