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When we started development of Neptune the question was raised:
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In our Silver Medal Human Practices page, we outlined our public outreach and industry visits. These experiences drew our team to focus on accessibility in synthetic biology as a theme moving forward with our human practice contributions. For Silver HP, we contributed a set of informational blog posts on the history of intellectual property, and IP in software and in synthetic biology today. We welcome you to read these at our WordPress site>
 
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Moving forward with the development of Neptune, we decided that we would extend our silver medal HP theme of accessibility in synthetic biology. Indeed, we were developing a complete, end-to-end microfluidic development workflow. Having seen how inaccessible and prohibitively costly microfluidics are for researchers, and also having studied the virtues of open source tools for synthetic biology, we decided to integrate accessibility into our implementation of Neptune.  
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How much does the public know about microfluidics?
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By answering these two questions we could tailor Neptune to be as useful as possible, by as many people as possible.
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To this end, we decided to visit several synthetic biology labs and companies to learn more about their use of microfluidics. We also participated in public outreach and education, using this as an opportunity to educate the public about synthetic biology, and to learn more about the public's view of microfluidics. Finally, we wrote several blogs on IP in synthetic biology, drawing from what we learned about the importance of accessibility in synthetic biology.  
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In This page, we cover 3 sections to our Silver HP contributions.
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In this page, we cover 3 ways in which we expand on and integrate the theme of accessibility to our final product, Neptune.  
 
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-First, we made it a project criteria that Neptune must interface with low cost, open and readily available tools and hardware to create microfluidics.  
 
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Finally, we conclude by exploring our contribution to the iGEM community: A reference blog on IP in synthetic biology.   
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Revision as of 16:17, 18 October 2016


HUMAN PRACTICES: GOLD






Neptune: Accessible microfluidics for all
In our Silver Medal Human Practices page, we outlined our public outreach and industry visits. These experiences drew our team to focus on accessibility in synthetic biology as a theme moving forward with our human practice contributions. For Silver HP, we contributed a set of informational blog posts on the history of intellectual property, and IP in software and in synthetic biology today. We welcome you to read these at our WordPress site>

Moving forward with the development of Neptune, we decided that we would extend our silver medal HP theme of accessibility in synthetic biology. Indeed, we were developing a complete, end-to-end microfluidic development workflow. Having seen how inaccessible and prohibitively costly microfluidics are for researchers, and also having studied the virtues of open source tools for synthetic biology, we decided to integrate accessibility into our implementation of Neptune.

In this page, we cover 3 ways in which we expand on and integrate the theme of accessibility to our final product, Neptune.
-First, we made it a project criteria that Neptune must interface with low cost, open and readily available tools and hardware to create microfluidics.
-Second, we partnered with the NONA Research Foundation, an organization dedicated to increasing access, collaboration, and building a community around synthetic biology software tools.
-Finally, we offer our team as a point of contact to other iGEM teams that have created software solutions and would like to have these tools protected and stored on NONA.