Kafatos:iGem

How is OpenWetWare useful for labs?

things that you do already offline but might be more effective on the wiki

• meeting organization (lab meetings (1,2), retreat planning (1,2), etc)
• ordering
• lab jobs (1, 2, 3)
• equipment pages
  • control experiments, etc.

things you may not do currently, but which are easy on a wiki --> lab namespace

• long term storage of lab information (protocols, primers, restriction enzymes)
  • Helps with the rapid turnover of personel in labs, collaborative protocol editing tunes protocols used by several lab members, searchable, information.
• up-to-date, high content level lab webpage
  • remove the webmaster "bottleneck" - democratized contribution

unique opportunities on OpenWetWare

• publicize your work, prior to publication
  • OWW will probably be the top google hit for your name
• collaborate
  • find out what people are doing right now across the world or just downstairs

OWW shared pages

• • Shared protocols, materials, equipment, etc.
  • protocol example

How is OpenWetWare useful for iGEM teams?

• Q&A / Experimental troubleshooting
  • There is an active community of helpful researchers as well as existing resources on the site:
  • BioBricks
  • Useful facts
  • Tutorials
  • Protocols, Materials and Equipment
• Strong synthetic biology presence on the site (it is the home of syntheticbiology.org).
• Custom extensions
  • Automatic Pubmed citations via Biblio [[Kafatos:Kafatos, Fotis|example use].
  • Recent changes filtering. See iGEM on OWW recent changes.
  • Easy adding of plots and chemistry diagrams (in progess)

• By forging links between iGEM and OpenWetWare, we hope to
  1. integrate iGEM participants more tightly with the research community
  2. create ongoing resources stemming from iGEM for the synthetic biology research community

How to get started on OWW

• Getting started: a quick guide to using OpenWetWare.