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
BBa = BioBrick [version] 'alpha'
Part Types
BBa_B... = Terminators and generic basic parts | |
BBa_C... = Protein coding parts | |
BBa_E... = Reporter parts | |
BBa_F... = Signalling parts | |
BBa_G... = Primer parts | |
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_Q... = Inverter parts | |
BBa_R... = Regulatory parts | |
BBa_S... = Intermediate parts | |
BBa_V... = Cell strain parts |
Plasmids
Plasmids have their own nomenclature |