Team:NYC Software/Safety

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(We have addressed and met all of 2011 iGEM competition's safety guidelines.)
 
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                 No, none of the scripts we've developed raise safety issues (though they will enable future cloning projects..)
                 No, none of the scripts we've developed raise safety issues (though they will enable future cloning projects..)
                 <h4>3. Is there a local biosafety group, committee, or review board at our institution?</h4>
                 <h4>3. Is there a local biosafety group, committee, or review board at our institution?</h4>
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                 We have departmental approval for our safety policies, and IRB approval is not needed since we don't have human subjects.  
                 <h4>4. Do we have any other ideas to deal with safety issues that could be useful for future iGEM competitions?</h4>
                 <h4>4. Do we have any other ideas to deal with safety issues that could be useful for future iGEM competitions?</h4>
                 As a software track team of 2011 iGEM competition it's our goal to design good open source tools that would allow everyone to engineer and understand biology more efficiently. We believe that by making good software tools and data sets available to the broader spectrum of people we can promote standardized practices and open communities to foster safer and more positive synthetic biology. And owing to the engineering and data driven nature of the field of synthetic biology itself we believe that it is crucial to push for open standards tools and data to ensure its safe practices in the future.   
                 As a software track team of 2011 iGEM competition it's our goal to design good open source tools that would allow everyone to engineer and understand biology more efficiently. We believe that by making good software tools and data sets available to the broader spectrum of people we can promote standardized practices and open communities to foster safer and more positive synthetic biology. And owing to the engineering and data driven nature of the field of synthetic biology itself we believe that it is crucial to push for open standards tools and data to ensure its safe practices in the future.   

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