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− | <h1 class="text-center">Human Practice</h1> | + | <h1 class="text-center">Public Engagement</h1> |
− | <h3>Earlier Stage</h3> | + | <h3>Public Engagement-Let's begin with games and coffee</h3> |
− | <h4>Visit to Huaheng Biotech</h4> | + | <h4>iSTC-interesting Synthetic Transaction and Cooperation</h4> |
− | <div class="passage">Huaheng Biotech is a company which the leading position around the world, in the field of
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− | alanine products producing using methods of microbiological fermentation. They had put a major capital
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− | investment in research and development. After communicating with their research leader, we took a visit to
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− | their plant and had a meetup with their researchers. <br>
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− | Despite their high level of research, they said that there remained no good pre-analytical way to decide how
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− | to improve their process of production. The existing way and tools had too many limits to be used by
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− | researchers so that they could only experiment with changes thought out of experience. Also, with careful
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− | consideration of environmental protection, they kept on finding ways to improve their products while not
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− | impact productive rates. <br>
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− | <h4>Meeting with Prof. Jiong Hong</h4>
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− | After acknowledging the problems faced in the real world, we went to have a meeting with our PI, professor | + | In order to promote public awareness of synthetic biology and introduce its basic ideas to the laymen, |
− | Jiong Hong. Prof. Hong informed us about the existence of Flux Balance Analysis and further researches based
| + | our team is devoted to the development of a board game which aims at instructing non-biologists to understand |
− | on it. Then we had some investigation about FBA, only to find that all existing tools to do FBA lack the
| + | what biobricks can do and how can we use them to make new things. |
− | ease of use despite the beauty of its method. It first came into our mind to build a great FBA tool that | + | |
− | meets the requirements of real production environments. | + | |
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− | <div class="text-center psgImg"> | + | As games have become a significant part of our spare time, and most youngsters would rather play games to have fun. |
− | <img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2019/3/36/T--USTC-Software--hp_hongjiong.jpg" alt="">
| + | We consider it a perfect opportunity to introduce synthetic biology to them. |
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| + | To attract more people without such background to be interested in this area, we develop this board game specially |
| + | designed for synthetic biology. In this game, even laymen can have fun. We greatly weakened the hardcore and |
| + | annoying part of synthetic biology when we keep the main idea of it. |
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− | <h4>Preliminary product design</h4> | + | <h4>USTC1958 Café</h4> |
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− | We proposed a revolutionary workflow that would greatly improve efficiency and decrease the complexity of | + | In our broader community, there's a café called USTC1958, which is the highest rating café in Hefei, |
− | using. In other words, we designed a high-level framework to automatically solve many inner logics and thus | + | according to the internet. We consider it a great way to interact with them. They may add color to our project while we can add new elements for them. |
− | simplify the process of analysis.
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− | <div class="text-center psgImg"> | + | Talking with the café owner, she spoke highly of our projects and enthusiasm, and also showed great interest in |
− | <img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2019/b/b2/T--USTC-Software--downside1.png" alt="">
| + | synthetic biology. As an attractive café owner, she provided brilliant suggestions for our team name, logo, and |
− | </div> | + | uniform. Since we don't have a teammate in the art relating majors, their advice had a great influence on us. |
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− | <div class="text-center psgImg"> | + | Meanwhile, we gave an overview of synthetic biology to them. They were interested in it and willing to add some |
− | | + | "synthetic" elements in the café. We offered to rendered our board game, which may help the customer kill time |
− | <img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2019/4/49/T--USTC-Software--downside2.png" alt="">
| + | and subtly teach them some aspects of synthetic biology. Thus we can make complex scientific information flow into the community. |
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− | We first considered to support a wild and customized searching function based on the optimization of
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− | databases. After a job done by UESTC-Software in 2018, we wanted to do some upgrade of the scale of | + | |
− | databases.
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− | Then we visited Wenfei Yu, the leader of team USTC in 2018, and got acknowledged about some common databases | + | It's really marvelous that more and more people will start learning with games and coffee. |
− | used in Syn-Biology and their shortcomings. Also, we became aware of cobrapy, a tool that offers several
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− | APIs to do FBA.
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− | To help us, USTC 2019 team gave us a hand, which enabled us to be instantly familiar with cobra. <br>
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− | <h3>Mid-term: A Change of Emphasis</h3>
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− | <h4>Meetup with SYSU 2019 team</h4>
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− | We went to Guangzhou in July and visited the iGEM team of Sun Yat-sen University. In the meetup, we
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− | introduced our projects to each other. At that time, we devoted ourselves to optimize our database which was
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− | at a great scale and then linking the output to FBA’s input. However, our idea hadn’t been fully approved by
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− | the SYSU team and their professor. They put forward that out idea about optimizing massive databases was not
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− | targeted for Synthetic Biology. In other words, there was a bias in our aim, for the work done to optimize
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− | the databases will distract us to design FBA workflow and its efficiency.
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− | In the emergency meeting that night we all admitted that the problem did exist. Then we decided immediately
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− | a change of emphasis of our project, which would more concentrated on the optimization of FBA and the whole
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− | framework.
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− | <h4>Discussion with upperclassmen</h4>
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− | He helped us tease out our whole project and his clear thinking impressed us very much. He then raised a
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− | question that whether we can provide a recommendation of Biobricks when we end up giving graphs of analysis.
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− | For example, if modifications and analysis had been done to the user's model based on E. coli, the
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− | researcher can immediately be acknowledged by our system which Biobricks he or she can use. After more
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− | discussion, we found it would be a pretty useful function. So we decided to append our system with a micro
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− | recommendation system for proper Biobricks. <br>
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− | <h3>CCIC: Weighing and Cooperating</h3>
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− | CCic, which stands for the Conference of China iGEMer Community, is the biggest synthetic biology conference
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− | in China. This year we had a wonderful time there in Shenzhen. We did presentations and our idea was
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− | evaluated by many experts and lovers in the field of synthetic biology. There we were encouraged to expand
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− | our project to a platform, using which users can share their models, and see the history of modifying. It
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− | enriched our project, made it closer to a mature one.
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− | <h4>Communication with Tongji 2019</h4>
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− | After our presentation, teammates of Tongji 2019 found us and asked whether we can offer some more specific
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− | suggestions, for their project was related to increasing generation rate of products of fermentation.
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− | After knowing that we can only analyze changes of major metabolites’ flux, they were quite disappointed. We
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− | talked to the professors and some senior students there at CCIC and they approved our design. For "it is not
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− | unnecessary for a researcher who does flux analysis to do this job, for it should be considered during
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− | experimental design. Your analysis of flux major metabolites is much more useful in a generative perspective
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− | and considering the accuracy."
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− | <h4>Cooperating with UESTC-Software</h4>
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− | During the communication with UESTC-Software 2019, we came up with the idea to build our recommendation
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− | system base on their well-handled data, for they had done a great job in collecting data and optimizing
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− | databases. We then reached cooperation with each other and the first time opened up collaboration lying
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− | deeply in the projects of iGEM Software Teams.
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− | <h3>The Test Run</h3>
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− | <h4>With USTC 2019</h4>
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− | Team USTC has always been enthusiastic to help us test our tool and improve our project. We had done several
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− | tests together, during which some small functions, such as optimizations with the display of graphs in the
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− | output, comparisions between different but alike models and polishing UI of the interface, were added in.
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− | <h4>With SJTU-Software 2019</h4>
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− | unfinished yet
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− | <h2 class="ref">References</h2>
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− | <div class="ref-list">
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− | <li>1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov</li>
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− | <li>2. https://2018.igem.org/Team:UESTC-Software/Description</li>
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