IGEM:Stanford/2010/Notebook/Oil Spills

Discussed the possible strains of bacteria/metabolic pathways that could be made us of in an oil spill
 * 3 Strains of naturally occurring bacteria: psuedomonas putida, alcanevorix, cycloelasticus,
 * Each can break down certain compoments, e.g. PAHs, Toluene, Xylene, Straight Chain alkanes
 * Certain problems are detailed below.

Split the problems into 4 solutions:
 * Distributions/Large Scale Production
 * Nitrogen Fixation/Phosphorus Supply
 * Why better than what has naturally evolved
 * Choke points in the metabolism

Some offshoots of the oil spill idea came into existence:
 * Using the straight chain splitting bacteria in place of cracking in a refinery (Alcanevorix)