Team:HZAU-China/Description
1.Overview
1.1 What’s the AR
With the unprecedented rapid development in computer technology and the significant promotion in computing capacity, it is undeniable truth that computer and computer products such as smartphone has played a great role in our lives. People spend their spare time using twitter and facebook, analyze data through computer applications, they can’t live without high-tech computer products. Contrary to the reality world that we actually exist in, computer creates a virtual world. Though computer itself is tangible, what emerges on the screen is an intangible product of a series of logical combination from electronic circuit. Our iGEM team in 2015 proposed the concept of “Mixed Reality Cell”, constructed by the interaction between the genetic oscillator and the e-oscillator, eventually leads to coupling and synchronization. However, existing in a world based on reality rather than mixed reality, computers are utilized as a tool to enhance one’s perception on reality and meet substantial requirements. This is a reality-oriented mixed-reality, which can also be called augmented reality (AR).
Figure .1 Augmented reality.
1.2 BioPafiar
The growth of bacteria complies with certain laws, among which the easiest would be the law of reproduction-diffusion, under whose control the shape of colony would appears to be round. If a total regulation on bacterial growth is added, for example the enhancement on its motility, the size of colony will be larger; if a local regulation is imposed on bacteria growth, the round shape of the colony will disappear; if the regulation is time-dependent, the regulation will make adjustment according to the certain circumstance of the bacterial colony at specific time. Therefore, the shape of the bacterial lawn will match our intended design. In contrary to the isolated state in nature, the cells and computer together forms a system, which is composed of both reality and virtual world, and reality occupied most part of the augmented reality system. In the system, the pattern formation of the bacteria population will be established as required. So we design this project to propose a concept that biochemistry reaction in different kinds of biological stimulation can be mimicked by placing cells in AR system, such as synthesis of enzymes, signal transduction, and bio-pattern formation. In addition, in the near future, this AR system can be applied in medical field or in our daily lives. For example, biological material 3D printing, and in vitro induction of tissue or organ. Welcome to our project: BioPafiar!
Figure 2.Welcome to BioPafiar!
2. Background
