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Experiments were done on a plasmid in which the probe has been inserted, thanks the Gibson technic, in psB1C3-BBa_J04450.

Results of the clonning of the probe into psB1C3-BBa_J04450

In parallel of the experiments, we sent our newly designed probe to sequencing. Unfortunately, the insert was not found in the sequence when alignment was done, the size was not the right one and the only thing that we could find was the sequence of BBa_J04450.

Test A: Is this part able to detect the target for which it has been designed ?

Unfortunately, results were too heterogenous to bring any conclusions. Indeed, the number of colonies, for the 1:100 and 1:200 ratios, expected was not good enought (there is a possibility that the detector was badly digested and was consequently badly transformed).

Test B: Is this part able to detect specifically the target for which it has been designed ?

Another limitation driven by the kit is the purity of the sample. Indeed, the detection occurs when the target is mixed with a lot of foreign and unknown DNAs. To estimate specificity, i.e. the ability of the detector to identify the true positive, the detector has to be tested with “false target sequences”, more or less homologous to the original targets. To do so, an algorithm was made by iGEM Grenoble 2017 to give random sequences with 5%, 15%, 25% and 50% randomly modified pairs of nucleotides (length is kept at 36bp).
The algorithm can be found here :

Unfortunately, we did not have the opportunity and the time to carry out these experiments.

Conclusion

In conclusion, the result of the sequencing allows us to affirm that the insertion of the probe into the backbone did not work. This explains the heterogeneous results of the sensitivity tests. Our work is based on the projects of Ireland Cork 2015 and Grenoble 2017 but the cloning technic used is different. Therefore, an optimization work has to be done to reach the expected result.

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