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Judging Criteria

This year, our goal was to complete the requirements necessary for the rewarding of a gold medal. The basic list of these criteria[1] are expanded upon below, with helpful reference links to parts of our website detailing how and when we accomplished each objective.

Bronze Medal

The requirements to earn a Bronze Medal are:

1. Register the team - Check!
2. Successfully complete and submit a Project Summary form - ?Yiannis?
3. Create and share a Description of the team's project via the iGEM wiki - You're at the Wiki right now! Visit the Project page for more detail about our project.
4. Present a Poster and Talk at the iGEM Jamboree - We'll see you in November!
5. Enter information detailing at least one new standard BioBrick Part or Device in the Registry of Parts - ?which, where on website?
6. Submit DNA for at least one new BioBrick Part or Device to the Registry of Parts - ?mention submittal?

Silver Medal

The requirements to earn a Silver Medal, in addition to the Bronze Medal requirements, are:

1. Demonstrate that at least one new BioBrick Part or Device of your own design and construction works as expected - ?Experimental Results, Modeling Results?
2. Characterize the operation of at least one new BioBrick Part or Device and enter this information on the Parts or Device page via the Registry of Parts - ?Our own characterization?

Gold Medal

The requirements to earn a Gold Medal, in addition to the Silver Medal requirements, are any one OR more of the following:

1. Characterize or improve an existing BioBrick Part or Device and enter this information back on the Registry - Since aTc and IPTG regulate our AND gate, we decided to find existing parts regulated by the same. We characterized our 5 promoters included with the 2009 iGEM kit ([http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_I14032 I14032], [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_J13002 J13002], [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_I14015 I14015], [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K091101 K091101], and [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_R0011 R0011]) in terms of transfer function, specificity, response time, and stability. We gratefully acknowledge MIT's iGEM 2004 team for their pioneering work in characterizing [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_F2620 BBa_F2620], and hope that our work continues to maintain the high standard for characterization of parts.
2. Help another iGEM team by, for example, characterizing a part, debugging a construct, or modeling or simulating their system
3. Develop and document a new technical standard that supports the (i) design of BioBrick Parts or Devices, or (ii) construction of BioBrick Parts or Devices, or (iii) characterization of BioBrick Parts or Devices, or (iv) analysis, modeling, and simulation of BioBrick Parts or Devices, or (v) sharing BioBrick Parts or Devices, either via physical DNA or as information via the internet. - The 2009 Berkeley Software team is developing a forward engineering DNA assembly language called [http://sourceforge.net/projects/eugene/ Eugene]. In an effort to support this language as a new technical standard, SynBioSS Designer (our software tool) can accept Eugene as input and produce Eugene output.
4. Outline and detail a new approach to an issue of Human Practice in synthetic biology as it relates to your project - ?are we going to do this?

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