[BBF Standards] Two separate standards

[Drew Endy]

Not true.  A promoter can be disassembled, for example in bacteria,  
into -10 and -35 regions.

You may find it helpful to stop thinking about natural objects such as  
operons and start thinking about devices as *engineered* objects.

For example, consider the material produced in 2004 by the Polkadorks:

http://parts.mit.edu/wiki/index.php/IAP2004:Polkadorks

In the Polkadorks work you can see that they clearly defined device  
boundaries based on PoPS, including PoPS pass-through boundaries  
leading to multi-device mRNA.


On Mar 14, 2008, at 5:30 PM, Deepak Chandran wrote:

> The parts,devices,systems hierarchy is fine. What is confusing to  
> call an entire operon (possibly more than one promoter, rbs, gene) a  
> "part" and a simple promoter a "part" as well. I can take an operon  
> apart and replace one of the rbs, whereas the promoter cannot be  
> taken apart. There is a difference between these two from an  
> engineering perspective.