Establishing a foundation for the future
For future Chalmers-Gothenburg teams, we’ve established a support association which will continue working with sponsors and contracts. The long term goal of the association is to establish economic safety for Chalmers’ future iGEM teams so they can focus on the competition rather than worrying about funds for their project.
To help other iGEM teams to do the same we have released the complete set of bylaws used by the association. The bylaws are constructed to meet the criteria of non-profit associations in Sweden and can be used by other teams in its fullness or as a reference when writing bylaws for a similar association. The bylaws used by the Chalmers-Gothenburg iGEM association have been reviewed and approved by the Swedish Tax Agency (sv. Skatteverket).
You can access the bylaws through this link.
As a contribution to the iGEM community, we have conducted several experiments through the growth and transformation of E. Coli and S. cerevisiae to create a new visible read out method for DNA detection.
If you're interested in learning more about which parts we've used, you can visit Parts to find more information here:
PLOP
We have developed a web app called PLOP - Polymer Length Optimization Program. It guides the design of polymer length in biological systems, and is based on modeling programs that we developed for optimizing polymer lengths in one of our systems. PLOP simulates systems with proteins and polymers, and calculates the probability that two proteins come in contact depending on polymer lengths. The contact probability can be related to reaction rate for protein-protein interactions, and therefore PLOP can be used for getting a desired reaction rate. PLOP can be used for modeling many types of polymers, for example protein linkers and DNA strands and we hope that it will facilitate for future iGEM teams when developing their project. You can read more about PLOP on the software page.