Resources

Advice and Best Practices for Future iGEM Teams

Original research rarely goes according to plan. Many of your experiments will fail. Prepare for this by splitting your project into phases that can be completed in parallel.

Be very careful when ordering DNA synthesized by a third party. Especially be ware that by default you will be shipped single-stranded DNA, so you must specify "duplex" if you need double-stranded DNA.

Collaborate with other students from different disciplines. Their perspectives will challenge you to think in new ways about the problems at hand.

Take initiative, be willing to take responsibilities, and get active in seeking out and learning new techniques.

Be curious about a field you have not explored before entering the research group.

External Links

Tools

Reverse and/or Complimentary Sequences - Free, browser-based applet for manipulating sequences according to IUPAC conventions

Serial Cloner 2.1 - Free, light molecular biology utility

Gene Designer 2.0 - Free, robust sequence design application

Papers

Refinement and standardization of synthetic biological parts and devices - Canton, Labno, and Endy (2008)

Can Patents Deter Innovation? The Anticommons in Biomedical Research - Heller and Eisenberg (1998)

Polymeric system for dual growth factor delivery - Richardson, Peters, Ennett, Mooney (2001)

Angiogenic effects of sequential release of VEGF-A165 and PDGF-BB with alginate hydrogels after myocardial infarction - Hao, Silva, Månsson-Broberg, Grinnemo, Siddiqui, Dellgren, Wärdell, Brodin, Mooney, and Sylvén (2007)

Spatiotemporal control of vascular endothelial growth factor delivery from injectable hydrogels enhances angiogenesis - Silva and Mooney (2007)

Mechanisms of angiogenesis and arteriogenesis - Carmeliet (2000)

Synthetic Extracellular Matrices for Tissue Engineering and Regeneration - Silva and Mooney (2004)