Resources/PhytoBricks for 2016
PhytoBricks and the 2016 iGEM Season
This year, we have decided to support a new assembly standard for the iGEM competition - PhytoBricks. This is a rather large and important experiment we’re undertaking for 2016. As you might expect, we’ve learned a lot so far…and expect to continue learning a lot more as we go along.
So what does that mean for you and your team?
- Any team can submit their parts as PhytoBricks in the pSB1C3 universal acceptor (BBa_P10500) we provided for teams this year. This is a massive change from previous years, where we required teams to submit only BioBricks in pSB1C3. Teams can choose to submit either BioBricks or PhytoBricks (or both!) this year!
- PhytoBrick parts are not restricted to plant parts alone! You can expand the library of PhytoBrick parts to include bacterial, yeast, and mammalian parts for your project.
- This experiment will also involve updating the Registry of Biological Parts, which is a very large project. This update will help teams create Part Pages more easily for PhytoBricks in particular, since there are variable 4bp scars involved with this assembly standard.
Please make your part pages based on the normal Add a Part requirements. You should include in the description on the main page for each part that this is a PhytoBrick part and note which plasmid this was submitted in (ex: P10500).
Submitting a PhytoBrick to iGEM HQ
When you submit your sample, there will be a "comment" section for each of your parts. Please simply state your part is a PhytoBrick in that field and we will manually go through those to accept the parts. You also need to note which plasmid you are submitting your sample in (ex: P10500).
