Well Documented Parts
At the beginning of iGEM, it was difficult to get experiments to work as expected. With not much working in the lab, little documentation was produced. As the competition matured and labs became more used to making and testing BioBricks, more experiments worked, and documentation began to improve. We then changed the rules, requiring iGEMers to submit highly-documented parts to be eligible for medals. Now, iGEMers submit amazing parts with abundant documentation, not because we require them, but because iGEMers want to. They know this is how to get future teams to use parts and is a critical part of enriching the synthetic biology community.
The job of every iGEMer and contributor to the Registry is to make their part as awesome as possible to inspire users to use it in following years. We encourage everybody who contributes to the Registry to complete as much information as possible and to perform as much characterization as possible before sending us a sample. We also encourage teams to add parameters and categories to their parts. We use these metrics to create part tables that are automatically updated when you add categories.
We're compiled several "Top 10" lists of the most documented parts in the Registry. Please note that to calculate the amount of documentation, we look at the HTML code, which sometimes picks up a lot of code that isn't displayed. We also count information on the Design and Experiences pages, but don't take images into account at this time. Although there may be heuristic errors in our calculations, we're working on making them better and more accurate. Have a look at the parts below to see the most documented examples in the Registry.
Top 10 Most Documented Parts
| Name | Description | Length | Created by | Documentaion | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BBa_K808000 | araC-Pbad - Arabinose inducible regulatory promoter/repressor unit | 1209 | Valentina Herbring, Sebastian Palluk, Andreas Schmidt | 1033281 | Regulatory | In stock |
| BBa_K2607001 | HB-EGF/Tar Receptor (HT) Device | 1836 | Andrea Laurentius | 191593 | Composite | It's complicated |
| BBa_K2607000 | DiphTox (DT) | 254 | Andrea Laurentius | 183996 | Protein_Domain | It's complicated |
| BBa_J04450 | RFP Coding Device | 1069 | Tamar Odle | 115288 | Reporter | In stock |
| BBa_K3187028 | Sortase A7M (Ca2+-independent variant) | 450 | iGEM TU_Darmstadt 2019 | 96929 | Coding | Not in stock |
| BBa_J23100 | constitutive promoter family member | 35 | John Anderson | 83466 | Regulatory | In stock |
| BBa_R0062 | Promoter (luxR & HSL regulated -- lux pR) | 55 | Vinay S Mahajan, Voichita D. Marinescu, Brian Chow, Alexander D Wissner-Gross and Peter Carr | 77850 | Regulatory | In stock |
| BBa_K857000 | acetaldehyde dehydrogenase | 951 | yale yuen | 73967 | Coding | It's complicated |
| BBa_K801060 | (+)-Limonene synthase 1 with Strep-tag and yeast consensus sequence. | 1708 | Lara Kuntz | 68635 | Coding | In stock |
| BBa_K3128009 | RFP protein under PLac promoter (with two restriction sites around the reporter) | 1055 | Lucas PINERO | 67891 | Reporter | Not in stock |
Top 10 Most Documented Promoters
| Name | Description | Length | Created by | Documentaion | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BBa_K808000 | araC-Pbad - Arabinose inducible regulatory promoter/repressor unit | 1209 | Valentina Herbring, Sebastian Palluk, Andreas Schmidt | 1033281 | Regulatory | In stock |
| BBa_J23100 | constitutive promoter family member | 35 | John Anderson | 83466 | Regulatory | In stock |
| BBa_R0062 | Promoter (luxR & HSL regulated -- lux pR) | 55 | Vinay S Mahajan, Voichita D. Marinescu, Brian Chow, Alexander D Wissner-Gross and Peter Carr | 77850 | Regulatory | In stock |
| BBa_J23106 | constitutive promoter family member | 35 | John Anderson | 63432 | Regulatory | In stock |
| BBa_J23101 | constitutive promoter family member | 35 | John Anderson | 53848 | Regulatory | In stock |
| BBa_I0500 | Inducible pBad/araC promoter | 1210 | Sri Kosuri | 48514 | Regulatory | In stock |
| BBa_R0010 | promoter (lacI regulated) | 200 | 46722 | Regulatory | In stock | |
| BBa_J23105 | constitutive promoter family member | 35 | John Anderson | 42371 | Regulatory | In stock |
| BBa_J23114 | constitutive promoter family member | 35 | John Anderson | 39200 | Regulatory | In stock |
| BBa_J23118 | constitutive promoter family member | 35 | John Anderson | 38811 | Regulatory | In stock |
Top 10 Most Documented Coding Regions
| Name | Description | Length | Created by | Documentaion | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BBa_K3187028 | Sortase A7M (Ca2+-independent variant) | 450 | iGEM TU_Darmstadt 2019 | 96929 | Coding | Not in stock |
| BBa_K857000 | acetaldehyde dehydrogenase | 951 | yale yuen | 73967 | Coding | It's complicated |
| BBa_K801060 | (+)-Limonene synthase 1 with Strep-tag and yeast consensus sequence. | 1708 | Lara Kuntz | 68635 | Coding | In stock |
| BBa_K2201004 | Nucleotide Transporter PtNTT2 from Phaeodactylum tricornutum | 1728 | Christopher M. Whitford | 66410 | Coding | It's complicated |
| BBa_K2926077 | Chloramphenicol resistance protein variant B Part 2 | 543 | Ina Schmitt | 60522 | Coding | Not in stock |
| BBa_K2926076 | Chloramphenicol resistance protein variant B Part 1 | 537 | Ina Schmitt | 60520 | Coding | Not in stock |
| BBa_K863000 | bpul (laccase from Bacillus pumilus) with T7 promoter, RBS and HIS tag | 1587 | Isabel Huber | 59969 | Coding | In stock |
| BBa_K2926078 | Kanamycin resistance protein Part 1 | 630 | Ina Schmitt | 54381 | Coding | Not in stock |
| BBa_K2926080 | Ampicilin resistance protein Part 1 | 588 | Ina Schmitt | 51505 | Coding | Not in stock |
| BBa_K2926081 | Ampicillin resistance protein Part 2 | 669 | Ina Schmitt | 50811 | Coding | Not in stock |
Top 10 Most Documented Ribosome Binding Sites
| Name | Description | Length | Created by | Documentaion | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BBa_B0034 | RBS (Elowitz 1999) -- defines RBS efficiency | 12 | Vinay S Mahajan, Voichita D. Marinescu, Brian Chow, Alexander D Wissner-Gross and Peter Carr IAP, 2003. | 25043 | RBS | In stock |
| BBa_K2560010 | Phytobrick version of BBa_B0032 | 22 | Tobias Hensel | 22448 | RBS | It's complicated |
| BBa_K2560016 | Phytobrick version of BBa_B0030 | 24 | Tobias Hensel | 21402 | RBS | It's complicated |
| BBa_K2560013 | Phytobrick version of BBa_B0031 | 23 | Tobias Hensel | 21401 | RBS | It's complicated |
| BBa_K2560008 | Phytobrick version of BBa_B0034 | 21 | Tobias Hensel | 21379 | RBS | It's complicated |
| BBa_K2560084 | Phytobrick version of RBS Dummy | 24 | Tobias Hensel | 21246 | RBS | It's complicated |
| BBa_K3202021 | RBS1 | 45 | Heyuan Ni | 21107 | RBS | Not in stock |
| BBa_K3202028 | B0034 | 12 | Heyuan Ni | 21072 | RBS | In stock |
| BBa_K3202026 | RBS2 | 38 | Heyuan Ni | 21057 | RBS | Not in stock |
| BBa_B0030 | RBS.1 (strong) -- modified from R. Weiss | 15 | Vinay S Mahajan, Voichita D. Marinescu, Brian Chow, Alexander D Wissner-Gross and Peter Carr IAP, 2003. | 17415 | RBS | In stock |
Top 10 Most Documented Terminators
| Name | Description | Length | Created by | Documentaion | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BBa_K2560034 | Phytobrick version of BBa_B0010 | 80 | Tobias Hensel | 23074 | Terminator | In stock |
| BBa_K2637017 | CYC1 terminator | 261 | Yan Zheng | 21476 | Terminator | It's complicated |
| BBa_K2560093 | Phytobrick version of BBa_B1006 | 41 | Tobias Hensel | 18204 | Terminator | It's complicated |
| BBa_K2560091 | Phytobrick version of BBa_B1003 | 36 | Tobias Hensel | 18196 | Terminator | It's complicated |
| BBa_K2560089 | Phytobrick version of BBa_B1002 | 36 | Tobias Hensel | 18188 | Terminator | It's complicated |
| BBa_K2560035 | Phytobrick version of BBa_B0015 | 129 | Tobias Hensel | 18067 | Terminator | In stock |
| BBa_K2560081 | Phytobrick version of Terminator Dummy | 82 | Tobias Hensel | 17465 | Terminator | It's complicated |
| BBa_B0015 | double terminator (B0010-B0012) | 129 | Reshma Shetty | 12466 | Terminator | In stock |
| BBa_K2637012 | ADH1 Terminator | 335 | Haoqian Zhao | 12009 | Terminator | It's complicated |
| BBa_K2637014 | TEF1 Terminator | 476 | Haoqian Zhao | 12009 | Terminator | It's complicated |