Part Names

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The following is a growing documentation of the Biobrick naming conventions.

Naming your bricks

Don't sweat this too much, just choose which category one might best describe your piece, tack on the corresponding naming convention (see below) and then go ahead and make it!

Some naming conventions

General

Part Types

  • BBa_B... = Generic basic parts
  • BBa_C... = Coding coding parts
  • BBa_F... = Signalling part
  • BBa_I... = IAP [http://parts.mit.edu/wiki/index.php/Iap_2003 2003], [http://parts.mit.edu/wiki/index.php/Iap_2004 2004] project parts
  • BBa_J... = [http:parts.mit.edu/wiki iGEM] project parts
  • BBa_M... = Tag parts
  • BBa_P... = Protein Generator parts
  • BBa_R... = Regulatory part
  • BBa_S... = Intermediate parts
  • BBa_V... = Cell strain parts

Plasmids