[BBF Standards] To expand Reshma's comment / contamination and enforcement [Re: data exchange issue 1: Abstraction]

[Raik Gruenberg]

The distinction between sequence - prefix/suffix is well documented:
http://parts.mit.edu/registry/index.php/Help:An_Introduction_to_BioBricks
/Raik

Ralph Santos wrote:
> Reshma mentions a point in passing that's worth emphasizing, that right 
> now even if there are other rules which are supposed to be in effect, as 
> a defacto matter right now basically anything with a part number is 
> called a part.  The fact that these parts exist at all in the registry 
> undermines your assertion that there are rules of part definition, 
> because even if you were to state them so that everyone can see them, 
> there's no actual enforcement of the rule.
> 
> Let me make it clear my intent is not to diminish what the parts 
> registry has done to this point.  Without the registry we'd have nothing 
> to talk about.  However, for a standard to be successful it's more than 
> sitting down some rules, it's defining rules both to support the 
> activities of a community and supporting the realization of those rules 
> with tools and practices that help people to comply with those rules.  
> That means communicating those rules, making sure they comply with those 
> aspects of existing practice you want to support and expand, and 
> sometimes it might mean discouraging or culling things which undermine 
> those rules.
> 
> Again, if you can post somewhere on the wiki what rules parts are 
> currently supposed to observe for the benefit of the discussion and send 
> me a link, I'd appreciate it.
> 
> Thanks,
> ---ralf
> 
> 
> Randy Rettberg wrote:
>> There are also errors in the Registry. Parts are defined to NOT have  
>> biobrick ends on their sequence.
>> If they do it is an error. Also, full plasmids consisting of a  
>> plasmid backbone and a part are also errors.
>> Composite parts that are entered as basic parts are also errors, but  
>> necessary until we support a wider
>> variety of scars.
>>
>> Randy Rettberg
>>   
> 
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