[BBF Standards] Experimental standards discussion

[Dileep Monie]

It seems that a JoVE (http://www.jove.com/) video article might be a 
good way to do this.  The video component helps novices learn the basic 
techniques while the written article is a straightforward protocol.  The 
Jaenisch Lab has a pretty slick video posted so I know that MIT has 
access to some good producers ;-)

However, teaching people how to use the kit doesn't encourage them to do 
so.  Ultimately, the best way to expand the user base for the promoter 
measurement kit is to convince others of its utility.  Though I am not 
too familiar with iGEM, perhaps teams could demonstrate this by using 
the measurement standard in an intercollegiate collaboration challenge.  
This could attract researchers interested in using it for their own 
projects, as well as people willing to work on increasing the robustness 
and flexibility of the kit.  Popularity will increase exponentially as 
the kit is refined and more people publish practical engineering results 
using it.

-Dileep


John Cumbers wrote:
> One way to promote Jason's kit might be a video showing people what to do.
> We could do this at Brown if we had some cash to pay somebody to 
> produce/editor, else he could come to MIT perhaps?
> cheers,
> John
>
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 4:01 PM, KS de Mora <Kim.De-Mora at ed.ac.uk 
> <mailto:Kim.De-Mora at ed.ac.uk>> wrote:
>
>     Guys,
>
>       The current BioBricks foundation standards mailing list has
>     predominantly been about software tools development and establishing
>     new languages to communicate information about BioBricks in a machine
>     readable format, to name a few topics.  I would like to start a
>     discussion about using, evaluating, creating and distributing
>     experimental standards.  I propose a few discussion topics:
>
>     1. How to get people to use Jason Kelly's promoter
>     characterization standard
>
>     2. How to apply and promote this standard to ribosome binding sites
>
>     3. How we can develop standards for other other parts
>
>     4. How standards can be linked together
>
>     5. General discussion on techniques for measuring PoPS
>
>     Cheers!
>
>     Kim
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