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

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NameDescriptionLengthCreated byDocumentaionTypeStatus
BBa_K808000 araC-Pbad - Arabinose inducible regulatory promoter/repressor unit1209Valentina Herbring, Sebastian Palluk, Andreas Schmidt1033281RegulatoryIn stock
BBa_K2607001HB-EGF/Tar Receptor (HT) Device1836Andrea Laurentius191593CompositeIt's complicated
BBa_K2607000DiphTox (DT)254Andrea Laurentius183996Protein_DomainIt's complicated
BBa_J04450RFP Coding Device1069Tamar Odle115288ReporterIn stock
BBa_K3187028Sortase A7M (Ca2+-independent variant)450iGEM TU_Darmstadt 201996929CodingNot in stock
BBa_J23100constitutive promoter family member35John Anderson83466RegulatoryIn stock
BBa_R0062Promoter (luxR & HSL regulated -- lux pR)55Vinay S Mahajan, Voichita D. Marinescu, Brian Chow, Alexander D Wissner-Gross and Peter Carr77850RegulatoryIn stock
BBa_K857000acetaldehyde dehydrogenase 951yale yuen73967CodingIt's complicated
BBa_K801060(+)-Limonene synthase 1 with Strep-tag and yeast consensus sequence.1708Lara Kuntz68635CodingIn stock
BBa_K3128009RFP protein under PLac promoter (with two restriction sites around the reporter)1055Lucas PINERO67891ReporterNot in stock

Top 10 Most Documented Promoters

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NameDescriptionLengthCreated byDocumentaionTypeStatus
BBa_K808000 araC-Pbad - Arabinose inducible regulatory promoter/repressor unit1209Valentina Herbring, Sebastian Palluk, Andreas Schmidt1033281RegulatoryIn stock
BBa_J23100constitutive promoter family member35John Anderson83466RegulatoryIn stock
BBa_R0062Promoter (luxR & HSL regulated -- lux pR)55Vinay S Mahajan, Voichita D. Marinescu, Brian Chow, Alexander D Wissner-Gross and Peter Carr77850RegulatoryIn stock
BBa_J23106constitutive promoter family member35John Anderson63432RegulatoryIn stock
BBa_J23101constitutive promoter family member35John Anderson53848RegulatoryIn stock
BBa_I0500Inducible pBad/araC promoter1210Sri Kosuri48514RegulatoryIn stock
BBa_R0010promoter (lacI regulated)200 46722RegulatoryIn stock
BBa_J23105constitutive promoter family member35John Anderson42371RegulatoryIn stock
BBa_J23114constitutive promoter family member35John Anderson39200RegulatoryIn stock
BBa_J23118constitutive promoter family member35John Anderson38811RegulatoryIn stock

Top 10 Most Documented Coding Regions

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NameDescriptionLengthCreated byDocumentaionTypeStatus
BBa_K3187028Sortase A7M (Ca2+-independent variant)450iGEM TU_Darmstadt 201996929CodingNot in stock
BBa_K857000acetaldehyde dehydrogenase 951yale yuen73967CodingIt's complicated
BBa_K801060(+)-Limonene synthase 1 with Strep-tag and yeast consensus sequence.1708Lara Kuntz68635CodingIn stock
BBa_K2201004Nucleotide Transporter PtNTT2 from Phaeodactylum tricornutum1728Christopher M. Whitford66410CodingIt's complicated
BBa_K2926077Chloramphenicol resistance protein variant B Part 2543Ina Schmitt60522CodingNot in stock
BBa_K2926076Chloramphenicol resistance protein variant B Part 1537Ina Schmitt60520CodingNot in stock
BBa_K863000bpul (laccase from Bacillus pumilus) with T7 promoter, RBS and HIS tag1587Isabel Huber59969CodingIn stock
BBa_K2926078Kanamycin resistance protein Part 1630Ina Schmitt54381CodingNot in stock
BBa_K2926080Ampicilin resistance protein Part 1 588Ina Schmitt51505CodingNot in stock
BBa_K2926081Ampicillin resistance protein Part 2669Ina Schmitt50811CodingNot in stock

Top 10 Most Documented Ribosome Binding Sites

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NameDescriptionLengthCreated byDocumentaionTypeStatus
BBa_B0034RBS (Elowitz 1999) -- defines RBS efficiency12Vinay S Mahajan, Voichita D. Marinescu, Brian Chow, Alexander D Wissner-Gross and Peter Carr IAP, 2003. 25043RBSIn stock
BBa_K2560010Phytobrick version of BBa_B003222Tobias Hensel22448RBSIt's complicated
BBa_K2560016Phytobrick version of BBa_B003024Tobias Hensel21402RBSIt's complicated
BBa_K2560013Phytobrick version of BBa_B003123Tobias Hensel21401RBSIt's complicated
BBa_K2560008Phytobrick version of BBa_B003421Tobias Hensel21379RBSIt's complicated
BBa_K2560084Phytobrick version of RBS Dummy24Tobias Hensel21246RBSIt's complicated
BBa_K3202021RBS145Heyuan Ni21107RBSNot in stock
BBa_K3202028B003412Heyuan Ni21072RBSIn stock
BBa_K3202026RBS238Heyuan Ni21057RBSNot in stock
BBa_B0030RBS.1 (strong) -- modified from R. Weiss15Vinay S Mahajan, Voichita D. Marinescu, Brian Chow, Alexander D Wissner-Gross and Peter Carr IAP, 2003. 17415RBSIn stock

Top 10 Most Documented Terminators

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NameDescriptionLengthCreated byDocumentaionTypeStatus
BBa_K2560034 Phytobrick version of BBa_B001080Tobias Hensel23074TerminatorIn stock
BBa_K2637017CYC1 terminator261Yan Zheng21476TerminatorIt's complicated
BBa_K2560093Phytobrick version of BBa_B100641Tobias Hensel18204TerminatorIt's complicated
BBa_K2560091Phytobrick version of BBa_B100336Tobias Hensel18196TerminatorIt's complicated
BBa_K2560089Phytobrick version of BBa_B100236Tobias Hensel18188TerminatorIt's complicated
BBa_K2560035 Phytobrick version of BBa_B0015129Tobias Hensel18067TerminatorIn stock
BBa_K2560081Phytobrick version of Terminator Dummy82Tobias Hensel17465TerminatorIt's complicated
BBa_B0015double terminator (B0010-B0012)129Reshma Shetty12466TerminatorIn stock
BBa_K2637012ADH1 Terminator335Haoqian Zhao12009TerminatorIt's complicated
BBa_K2637014TEF1 Terminator476Haoqian Zhao12009TerminatorIt's complicated