Team:Edinburgh/Links

Links

Useful information/tools, many of which we used regularly, can be found on the following pages:

Biology methods

• Open Wetware: French Lab protocols
  • Primer Design
• J5: overview of automated DNA assembly
• Primer Design (for forensics, but probably good advice for us too)

Genomics

• Transeq (nucleotide to protein conceptual translation)
• BLAST: Basic Local Alignment Search Tool
• EMBOSS Needle (and other pairwise alignment tools)
• NEBcutter (finds restriction sites; also finds ORFs if they start with M)
• GenePool: Sanger Sequencing Troubleshooting
• Reverse Complement
• UniProt
• EMBL
• Entrez
• StrainInfo

iGEM

• iGEM
  • iGEM 2011
  • Recent Changes to the Wiki
  • Previous iGEM competitions
  • This year's judging criteria
  • Calander of Events (i.e. deadlines)
• Parts Registry
  • Help
  • BioBrick prefix and suffix
  • RFC 12
  • RFC 23
• Life Reinvented (article on the origins of iGEM)

Software

• The Kappa Biological Modeling Language
  • Spatial Kappa
• MATLAB intro
• ApE Plasmid Editor
• FinchTV Chromatogram Viewer

Misc

• The old Wiki (do not use)
• CSS guide