Team:UTP-Panama/ Synbio UTP project 1.0

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Some of the main questions that arise when teams are developing a synthetic biology project are: where to go (institutions)?; under what legal framework for both scientific research and commercial projects do we proceed?; what kind of ethical challenges can we find, and how to introduce these issues into the education system?.The UTP SB PROJECT 1.0 is aiming to set these questions to be asked and answered when developing a project related to synthetic biology. Our program also seeks to link the sources of information to help address these questions.

Flowchart2: It shows how do you implement the synthetic biology on your community, institution or country. It is to do some reflections about repercussions of our projects in synthetic biology on the human practices.

This software is available,please click on the following link to download it. Instructions: After downloading, you must decompress unzip the package in a new folder using whether winrar or winzip. Then click on the setup.exe icon.

if you dont have the Winzip program you can find it: www.winzip.com ( only evaluation version)

Media:SB UTP project 1.0 installer.zip

Also you can enter to the program using the folder of the visual basic.net Project.

Visual basic.net version 2005 or 2008 is required to run the program. Download the folder here: Media:SynbioUTPProject1.0.zip

REFERENCES

[1] New Directions:the Ethics of Synthetic Biology and Emerging Technologies, 2010. Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues Report. [2] Erik Parens, Josephine Johnston, and Jacob Moses 2009 Ethical Issues in Synthetic Biology. The Hastings Center, Garrison, New York. Synthetic Biology Project / SYNBIo 3, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

[3] iGem competition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGEM