Difference between revisions of "Well Documented Parts"

Revision as of 17:33, 1 April 2014

In the ten year history of the iGEM competition, iGEMers and users of the Registry have created over 20,000 parts.

In 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 things worked, and documentation begun 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 lots of documentation, not because we require them, but because iGEMers want to. They know this is how to get future teams to use your parts and is a critical part of enriching the synthetic biology community.

The job or every iGEMer and contributor to the Registry is to make their part as awesome as possible to inspire students 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.

Top 10 Most Documented Parts

Top 10 Most Documented Promoters

Top 10 Most Documented Coding Regions