Attributions

Use this page to attribute work done on your project. This includes the work done by each of the student members on your team and any work that was done by people outside of your team, including the host labs, advisors, instructors, and individuals not on the team roster. This requirement is not about literature references - these can and should be displayed throughout your wiki.

Bronze Medal Criterion #2

Describe what work your team members did and what other people did for your project.

Please see the 2022 Medals Page for more information.

What should this page contain?

  • Clearly state what each member of the team accomplished. We have provided some recommended categories below. Your team may also have other categories you can include.
    • Analysis: analyzing data generated by your team, another iGEM team (current or previous), and/or from literature as needed for your project
    • Conceptualization: brainstorming and developing ideas for the project
    • Investigation: performing the experiments and/or collecting data/evidence
    • Lab Maintenance: cleaning, organizing, and preparing the research facilities or lab
    • Fundraising: raising money, in-kind donations of materials, and/or services for the team’s activities
    • Public Engagement: preparing and/or implementing tools/activities to engage the broader community
    • Entrepreneurship: developing business models and other commercially relevant materials or activities
    • Background Research: reading peer-reviewed scientific research articles, white papers, regulations/guidelines, and other documents
    • Data Curation: annotating (producing metadata), cleaning, and maintaining research data for your team's project and for future use by other iGEM teams or members of the synthetic biology community
    • Software: developing, implementing, and/or testing computer programs and code
    • Hardware: designing, building, and/or testing mechanical, electrical, or optical hardware systems
    • Project Administration: managing and coordinating the project activities, planning, and execution
    • Visualization: preparation, creation and/or presentation of the work including data visualization, user interfaces, videos and other graphics
    • Writing: writing, reviewing or editing content for the wiki or other documents to be shared outside the team
    • Safety: performing activities to ensure compliance with the safety guidelines or requirements of iGEM, your institution, and/or government
  • Clearly state who provided the student team members with:
    • General support
    • Project support and advice
    • Fundraising help and advice
    • Lab support
    • Difficult technique support
    • Project advisor support
    • Wiki support
    • Presentation coaching
    • Human Practices support
  • Thanks and acknowledgements for all other people involved in helping make your team successful
  • Literature references: we encourage you to display literature references throughout your entire wiki

Inspiration

Why is this page needed?

The Attribution requirement helps the judges know what you did yourselves and what you had help with. You can get help with difficult or complex techniques, but you must report what work your team did and what work was done by others.

For example, you might choose to work with an animal model during your project. Working with animals requires getting a license and applying far in advance to conduct certain experiments in many countries. This is difficult to achieve during the course of a summer, but much easier if you can work with a postdoc or PI who has the right licenses.

Can we base our project on a previous one?

Yes! You can have a project based on a previous team, or based on someone else's idea, as long as you state this fact very clearly and give credit for the original project.

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