[BBF Standards] housecleaning for physical assembly

[Drew Endy]

Folks,

We need to sort out the assembly standard for physical composition of  
BioBrick parts.  There are now many schemes, some of which have been  
formally described, some that have been widely adopted, and others  
that are lurking.

The reason that it would be good to sort this issue out now is that  
iGEM 2008 will start next month, and the teams would benefit from  
being able to build to and use the best possible standard that  
supports reliable physical assembly of BioBrick parts.

Please take a look at this website:
http://openwetware.org/wiki/The_BioBricks_Foundation:Standards/Technical/Formats

which summarizes the details and strengths and weaknesses of all the  
current schemes except for UCSF and UC Berkeley (this information  
needs to be added).

Should we move from the classic format to the Freiburg format or to  
the Berkeley Extreme format, for example?

Your thoughts please,
Drew