Team:RDFZ-China/Measurement

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  Description Design Demonstrate Search Engine
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Future Plan

1. Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry（GC/MS）, an analytical method that combines the features of gas-chromatography and mass spectrometry to identify different substances within a test sample. We will take this test to measure the molecular weight of molecules generated by our plasmid and thus verify the existence of small-molecule gases. GC/MS empowers us the ability to validate our parts collection’s authority.

2. To meet the expectation from SDGo judges, we combine with cell free system and decide to send aromatic flowers to deserts in Xinjiang in which flowers seldom bloom. Consider of the biosafety problem, we will first contact with laboratory nearby, and utilize cell free system kit there. As we know, beautiful flowers can regulate people’s emotions. By doing this, we can bring more happiness to those little children. Besides, the combination of cell free system and the fragrance parts from our library is also an efficient way of biological education. Those children can learn botany from the aspects of their appearance and smells. However, the risks brought by this educational activity cannot be negligible. Thus the details should be discussed with iGEM community before it would be implemented by educators in the future.

3. Artificial flowers are mostly made by plastics, which is notoriously harmful to the environment. It will take about 10~100 years to decompose in natural environment and may be harmful to the soil which will greatly affect agriculture. We may try to decompose it artificially, since it’s hard to do so naturally. The most effective way of decomposing plastics is by bacteria. However, since the bacteria are distributed unevenly and are less various in the ocean, decomposing plastics in the ocean are far more difficult than it is on land.

Due to the reason above, we may collaborate with labs that are working on bio-degradable plastic in ocean, and possibly in the future develop an environmentally friendly artificial flowers with fragrance.

4. We would expand content of a library to a wider range of topics, including information about parts of not only fragrance, but also taste and color, for example. The flavor of yoghurt of the Edinburgh University in 2007 is a wonderful inspiration and example. Similar to the fragrance parts data base, the taste parts data base is based on and with this improvement, our engine becomes more practical, providing help to more people in the field of synthetic biology with different studies, and creating convenience for all. With more and more diverse element of a library into our project, we intentionally to enlarge the meaning of a parts library.

5. In the future, we plan to improve our searching engine from two aspects. First, we will enlarge the fragrance library by adding more fragrance generating parts and supplementing more data about existing parts. We could cooperate with other websites or databases and provide a wider platform which contain the collection of some specific types of parts for future iGEMers to search for diversity parts. Second, we will improve the stability of the website of our searching engine. Through these two improvements, we believe that future iGEMers and researchers can have a better researching experience and thus contribute to the iGEM community a bit more.