Acknowledgements

• We would like to thank A/Prof William for his guidance and help for the iGEM team. We would also like to thank Dr Tan Tuan Lin for guiding the team and providing valuable insights for the experiments.

• We would like to thank [http://www.ntu.edu.sg/scbe/cbe/FacultyPP/Profile_chentao.htm Asst/P Chen Tao], [http://www.ntu.edu.sg/scbe/cbe/FacultyPP/Profile_Vinay.htm Asst/P Vinay] and [http://www.ntu.edu.sg/scbe/cbe/FacultyPP/Profile_Ansumali.html Asst/P Santosh] for their time and guidance in coming up with the mathematical models for our iGEM project.

• Professor Chris Voigt and Rena Hill from University of Califonia San Francisco, Mission Bay campus, San Francisco for their donation of plasmids for AND modular gate, as well as providing relevant information of the following plasmids' genomes:
  • pAC-SalSer914
  • pBACr-AraT7940
  • pBR939B

• Dr. Hanna S. Yuan and Zhong-Hao Shi from Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei for their donation of plasmid that encode for microcin E7 and for providing information on plasmid's genome.

• Professor Chak Kin Fu from National Yang Ming University, Taipei for his donation of bacteria strain W3110 and BW that contain the plasmid ColE7-K317 and for providing the publications:
  • Cloning and Characterization of ColE7 Plasmid. J Gen Microbiol 137:97-100
  • Characterization of the cea gene of the ColE7 Plasmid. Mol Gen Genet (1992) 233:177-183

• Professor David Gordon from School of Botany & Zoology, The Australian National University for his kind donation of the strains in the Pugsley colicin collection

• We would also like to thank [http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/SCBE/BioE/FacultyPP/Profile_Neu.htm Asst/P Bjoern Holger Neu] and his graduate student [http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/neu/index_files/Page430.htm Yang yang] for kindly lending us their microscope.