Team:IIT-Madras/Description
Motivation
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Few decades from now on, we’ll have synthetic bacteria acting like autonomous robots. They’ll produce bioplastics, food, electricity on their own. They’ll be able to precisely detect and differentiate cancer cells from normal cells. Keeping this in mind, we wish to make logic based computations in cells as precise and predictive as we have them in our laptop chips. We seek to apply efficient methods and technology to assess the variability in cells and fix it. Considering these things, we have designed this year’s our project.
If we were to construct a biological oscillator , we would require various genetic parts with different strengths to functions like an oscillator. Our oscillator would work only when we make it using parts, which provide complete information about their behavior w.r.t. other parts. Usually, we use a reporter protein to characterize the functionality of device and don’t pay much attention to proper controls, which can lead to erroneous results due to intrinsic and extrinsic factors. This can be called as noise in device.
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