[BBF Standards] Experimental standards discussion

[John Cumbers]

I think the kit will be popular, the video is just a way to lower the
barrier to actually doing the experiment, perhaps the Jaenisch Lab would
like to characterize some promoters?
cheers,
John

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Dileep Monie <dmonie at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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