Acknowledgements

• We would like to thank our sponsors:
  • Kluyver Centre for Genomics of Industrial Fermentation
  • DSM
  • Netherlands Genomics Initiative
  • BaseClear
  • The Delft University of Technology Department of Bionanoscience
  • The Delft University of Technology Department of Biotechnology

• The assistance of all advisors is very much appreciated. We would like to thank:
  • Prof.Dr. J.T. (Jack) Pronk

• We owe many thanks to the inhabitants of the Enzymology labs, whom we constantly bugged with questions and requests. In particular we would like to thank:
  • Ing. E. (Esengül) Yildirim
  • Ing. L. (Laura) Koekkoek

• The people who made it possible to do this project, by providing lab space and permits:
  • Prof.Dr. S. (Simon) de Vries
  • Dr. L.A. (Lesley) Robertson
  • Ing. S. (Susanne) Hage

• The people guiding us through the ethical research. Your help was very much appreciated:
  • Ir. S. (Steven) Flipse
  • Dr. D.R. (David) Koepsell
  • Drs. D. (Daan) Schuurbiers

• The people helped us setting up a communication plan. Your help was very much appreciated:
  • Ir. E.W. van Hellemond
  • Drs. I.M. Noteboom
  • Communication Department Delft University of Technology.

• Special thanks to everyone participating in our survey on issues in synthetic biology, your contribution is very helpful.

• We would like to thank Federico Castro for some of the early inspiration for our ideas.

• All the people that attended the brainstorming session at the beginning of the project.

• We would like to thank the Bologna '08 team and UNIPV-Pavia '08 team and [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php?title=ETHZ/Model ETHZ '07 team], whose projects were useful in our own modeling work.

• We would like to thank the [http://openwetware.org/wiki/IGEM:UC_Berkeley/2006 Berkeley iGEM 2006 team], [http://openwetware.org/wiki/IGEM:Caltech/2007 Caltech iGEM 2007 team] and [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Peking Peking iGEM 2007 team], whose previous work were the basis of the lock and key generator algorithm.

• We would like to thank the following people for their help:
  • Rob Brooijmans
  • Professor JI Prosser
  • Dr Cristina Lagido
  • Dr Haico van Attikum

• We would also like to thank Ewout Boelsums for allowing us to use his panorama of Delft's market square on our website.

• We would like to thank Udo van Dongen for his help with fluorescence microscopy.

• Everyone we forgot

• And last but definitely not least, we would like to thank our supervisors for the opportunity they gave us to work on this projects and their indestructible help, great feedback, humor and kindness and specifically the time they spend guiding us successfully through the project:
  • Drs. J. (Janine) Kiers
  • Dr. D. R. (Domenico) Bellomo
  • MSc. I.E. (Emrah) Nikerel